Workshop on Nitrate Radicals and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Oxidation, Mechanisms and Organic Aerosol; Atlanta, GA; June 22-24, 2015

该项目支持一个小型研讨会，该研讨会将为参与者提供讨论当前研究的机会，解决关键的悬而未决的问题，并激发关于硝酸盐自由基化学在生物圈中挥发性有机物排放区域大气中小颗粒形成中的作用的未来研究思路。对这种化学性质的更深入了解将为气溶胶形成及其对气候和空气质量的影响的模式预测提供更好的约束条件。研讨会将邀请具有实验室、现场和建模专业知识的研究人员一起确定实验室研究（例如，动力学、机制、产物等），以更深入地了解生物挥发性有机化合物（BVOC）和硝酸盐自由基（NO3）之间的化学相互作用。该研讨会将包括早期职业科学家和知名科学家，以及一些年轻的研究人员（博士后和学生）。研讨会的预期成果是：(1)BVOC+NO3化学的综述论文；(2)硝酸盐自由基氧化BVOCs的关键科学问题和未来基础研究方向；(3)解决关键科学问题所需的关键测量和研究类型清单（例如，室内实验、流管研究、湿化学等）；（四）可能向各资助机构提交的合作研究提案；(5)在《大气化学与物理》特刊上发表关于研讨会确定的关键科学课题的新发现。

This project supports a small workshop that will provide opportunities for participants to discuss current research, address key outstanding questions, and stimulate future research ideas on the role of nitrate radical chemistry in the formation of small particles in the atmosphere in regions where there are emissions of volatile organics from the biosphere. A deeper understanding of this chemistry will provide improved constraints on model predictions of aerosol formation and their effects on climate and air quality.The workshop will involve researchers with expertise in laboratory, field, and modeling together to identify laboratory studies (e.g., kinetics, mechanisms, products, etc.) to obtain a deeper understanding of the chemical interactions between biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) and nitrate radicals (NO3). The workshop will include early-career scientists and established scientists, as well as a number of younger researchers (post docs and students).The expected results of the workshop are: (1) a review paper on BVOC+NO3 chemistry; (2) a list of key scientific questions to be addressed and directions for future fundamental studies on the oxidation of BVOCs with nitrate radicals; (3) a list of critical measurements and types of studies (e.g., chamber experiments, flow tube studies, wet chemistry, etc.) needed to address the key scientific questions; (4) collaborative research proposals that may be submitted to various funding agencies; and (5) the publication of new findings on key scientific topics identified at the workshop in a special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.