The Essential Role for Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry.
Laboratory studies of atmospheric chemistry characterize the nature of atmospherically relevant processes down to the molecular level, providing fundamental information used to assess how human activities drive environmental phenomena such as climate change, urban air pollution, ecosystem health, indoor air quality, and stratospheric ozone depletion. Laboratory studies have a central role in addressing the incomplete fundamental knowledge of atmospheric chemistry. This article highlights the evolving science needs for this community and emphasizes how our knowledge is far from complete, hindering our ability to predict the future state of our atmosphere and to respond to emerging global environmental change issues. Laboratory studies provide rich opportunities to expand our understanding of the atmosphere via collaborative research with the modeling and field measurement communities, and with neighboring disciplines.
Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States.
James B
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Burkholder
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada.
Jonathan P D
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Abbatt
University of Wuppertal , School of Mathematics and Natural Science, Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Gauss Strasse 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
Ian
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Barnes
Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States.
James M
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Roberts
IGAC Executive Officer, University of Colorado/CIRES , Boulder, Colorado 80309-0216 United States.
Megan L
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Melamed
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute , Villigen, 5232, Switzerland.
Markus
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Ammann
Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada.
Allan K
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Bertram
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California , Davis, California 95616, United States.
Christopher D
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Cappa
Department of Chemistry, University of California , Irvine, California 92617, United States.
Annmarie G
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Carlton
Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of York , York, United Kingdom , YO10 5DD.
Lucy J
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Carpenter
Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany.
John N
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Crowley
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion, Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel.
Yael
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Dubowski
Université Lyon 1CNRS, UMR5256, IRCELYON, Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon , Villeurbanne F-69626, France.
Christian
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George
School of Chemistry, University of Leeds , Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
Dwayne E
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Heard
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung (TROPOS), D-04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Hartmut
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Herrmann
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02128, United States.
Frank N
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Keutsch
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Jesse H
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Kroll
Chemical Engineering, Columbia University , New York, New York, United States.
V Faye
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McNeill
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Nga Lee
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Ng
Department of Chemistry University of California , Irvine, California 92697, United States.
Sergey A
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Nizkorodov
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory , Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States.
John J
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Orlando
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester , Manchester, United Kingdom.
Carl J
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Percival
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR 7583 CNRS, Universités Paris-Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace , Créteil Cedex, France.
Bénédicte
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Picquet-Varrault
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Yinon
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Rudich
School of Chemistry, University of Leeds , Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
Paul W
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Seakins
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Jason D
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Surratt
National Institute for Environmental Studies , Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan.
Hiroshi
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Tanimoto
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
Joel A
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Thornton
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University , Beijing, China.
Zhu
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Tong
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory , Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States.
Geoffrey S
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Tyndall
Institue of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
Andreas
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Wahner
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University , Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States.
Charles J
CJ
Weschler
Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California, United States.
Kevin R
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Wilson
Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.
Paul J
PJ
Ziemann
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