COURSES

Goals

Goals: - understanding aerosol measurement techniques and instrumentation, - understanding health and climate effects of carbonaceous aerosols, - learning to plan and conduct a measurement campaign, - learning to use receptor modeling for source apportionment of air pollution. Competencies: - ability to independently carry out a measurement campaign, - ability to process the data and to use the results for abatement of air quality, - ability to open up and develop the field of air pollution, - ability to set up an experimental foundation for air quality abatement measures and verification of their efficiency; all based on critical analysis and interdisciplinary approach.

Curriculum

The measurement of Black Carbon and other carbonaceous aerosols, measurement of the aerosol absorption coefficient, the instrumentation and measurements and aerosol climate and health effects. - Primary and secondary aerosols. - Instrument development, basic and hyphenated measurement techniques. - Receptor source apportionment methods, use of the aerosol absorption wavelength dependence to apportion black carbon measurements into contributions from traffic and biomass combustion and to separate black and brown carbon. - Shortcomings of existing air quality regulations. - Planning of evaluation experiments. - Ambient measurements; processing and interpretation of the data. - Cooperation with a small high tech enterprise within the experimental campaign.