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新的研究或教育成果，或使其他研究人员或学生接触新的研究和教育技术。NSF鼓励在美国召开国际会议。马里兰州学院公园大学将组织一个研讨会，汇集来自美国，埃塞俄比亚和欧洲为未来的研究制定路线图，以促进对非洲高污染新兴特大城市（如埃塞俄比亚的阿迪斯）污染扩散的基本理解。会议将于2020年6月11日至13日举行。来自历史上的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这次研讨会。 鉴于排放量存在很大的不确定性，以及大气化学和跨边界气候影响的可能性具有区域特异性，因此举办一次重点突出的研讨会，以确定非洲特大城市特有的科学问题至关重要。对非洲空气质量的详细研究可能会揭示新的大气化学过程，这种过程在北方中纬度高度采样区域可能并不常见。这些新的信息可能对改善空气质量模型的化学机制产生重大影响，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的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。它将讨论通过短期密集测量活动可以实现什么样的科学目标，并讨论长期数据收集工作的要求，以量化可能有助于非洲空气质量监管机构的一次和二次排放。该研讨会由地球科学和教育人力资源局共同资助&。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.