Conference on a Pilot Study Design for Air Quality in Africa

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持科学和工程领域的会议，这些会议将专家聚集在一起讨论最近的研究或教育成果，或向其他研究人员或学生展示新的研究和教育技术。NSF鼓励在美国召开国际会议。马里兰大学学院公园分校（University of Maryland College Park）将组织一次研讨会，汇集来自美国、埃塞俄比亚和欧洲的专家，为未来的研究制定路线图，以促进对埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴等非洲高度污染的新兴特大城市污染扩散的基本认识。会议将于2020年6月11日至13日举行。来自传统黑人学院和大学以及其他少数民族服务机构的学生和教师将参加本次研讨会。考虑到排放的巨大不确定性，以及大气化学和跨边界气候影响的潜力，这些都是区域特有的，因此，一个确定非洲特大城市特有科学问题的重点研讨会是至关重要的。非洲详细的空气质量研究可能揭示在中纬度北部高采样地区可能不常见的新的大气化学过程。这一新信息可能对改进空气质量模型的化学机制具有重要意义，并可能为实验室规模的过程研究提供指导。讲习班将确定并报告严格实验设计的观测和建模要求，以满足非洲特大城市的独特需求。它将讨论短期密集测量运动可以实现哪些科学目标，并讨论长期数据收集工作的要求，以量化初级和次级排放，这可能有助于非洲的空气质量监管机构。本次研讨会由地球科学局和教育与人力资源部共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports conferences in areas of science and engineering that bring experts together to discuss recent research or education findings or to expose other researchers or students to new research and education techniques. NSF encourages the convening in the U.S. of international conferences. The University of Maryland College Park will organize a workshop to bring together experts from the U.S., Ethiopia, and Europe to develop a roadmap for future research to advance the fundamental understanding of the spread of pollutions in highly polluted emerging megacities in Africa, such as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference will be held on June 11-13, 2020. Students and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Serving Institutions will attend this workshop. Given the large uncertainties in emissions and the potential for atmospheric chemistry and boundary- spanning climate impacts that are region specific, a focused workshop to identify the science questions unique to African megacities is critical. Detailed air quality studies in Africa may reveal novel atmospheric chemistry processes that may not be common in highly sampled regions in the northern mid latitudes. This new information could have significant implications for improved chemical mechanisms for air quality models and could provide guidance for laboratory-scale process studies. The workshop will identify and report on the observational and modeling requirements for rigorous experimental design addressing the unique needs from an African megacity point of view. It will discuss what science goals can be accomplished from a short-term intensive measurement campaign and discuss requirements for a long-term data collection effort to quantify primary and secondary emissions that may assist air quality regulators in Africa.This workshop is co-funded by the Directorates of Geosciences and Education & Human Resources.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.