| Seminar Announcement |
Impact of Sea-Salt Aerosol on the Weekend Effect
Donald Dabdub
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
and
Advanced Power and Energy Program
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
The weekend effect has become an important issue in regulation as it
may suggest that controlling NOx would be counter
productive to reducing ozone concentrations. Current hypotheses
suggest that the dynamics of NOx (changes of quantities and
timing NOx emissions rates) explain in part the increase in
ozone concentrations. In the past few years there have been new
discoveries of atmospheric processes such as the chemistry of sea-salt
aerosol in coastal areas. This study quantifies the impact that
sea-salt aerosol has on air quality in urban regions. The focus area
of this study is the South Coast Air Basin of California.
Particular emphasis will be placed to the impact of sea-salt aerosol to the weekend effect.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
3:30 PM
Seaver Science Library, Room 150 (SSL 150)
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 pm.
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