LAC Aerosols Measurements School Program

Day 0 - Sunday 21th June (arrival day):  Ice breaker

Meeting at 18:00 at Hotel Calacoto: aerial city tour

Day 1 – Monday 22th June
8:30 – 9:00               Registration
9:00 – 10:00             Introduction to the course - Marcos Andrade (LFA-UMSA, Bolivia)
10:00 – 10:30           Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00           Atmospheric aerosol and air quality: from research to regulation - Paolo Laj (LGGE, France)

13:30 – 15:00           Aerosols in the climate system - Olga Mayol (URP-RP, Puerto Rico)
15:00 – 16:30           Aerosols emissions in the LAC region: Special focus on BC- Laura Dawidowski (CNEA, Argentina)
16:30 – 17:00           Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00           Student/young scientist presentations  (10 min each)
·       Sofia Caumo: Biomarkers compounds of sugarcane burning in atmospheric particulate matter collected in São Paulo city, Brazil.
·       Fabian Guerrero: Particle size distribution from the combustion of Eucalyptus globulus, Nothofagus obliqua, Pinus radiate using a new controlled combustion chamber 3CE
·       Germán Pérez Fogwill: Two years of Black Carbon measurements at Marambio station in Antarctica
·       Fernando Velarde:  Seasonal and diurnal behavior of particle number size distribution in the Central
Andes lower free troposphere at mountain Chacaltaya (5240 masl)
·       Andrea Orfanoz: High resolution simulations of vertical stratification of pollutant over Santiago and its transport to Los Andes, Chile.


Day 2: Tuesday 23th June
8:30 – 9:30               Terminology: what do we call BC? – Paolo Laj (LGGE, France)
9:30 – 11:00             Mechanical Properties & Diameter Definitions – Alfred Wiedensohler (TROPOS, Germany)
11:00 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45           Sampling, Conditioning & Losses - Alfred Wiedensohler (TROPOS, Germany)

14:15 – 15:45           Optical Properties (Extinction, Scattering & Absorption) – Thomas Müller (TROPOS)
15:45 – 17:15           Measuring scattering and extinction - Alfred Wiedensohler (TROPOS, Germany)
17:15 – 17:30           Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30           From data provision to data use, making data available - Paolo Laj (LGGE, France)

Day 3: Wednesday 24th June
8:30 – 12:30             Joint session with Policy makers
12:30 – 14:00           Lunch with policy makers
14:30 – 15:30           Student/young scientist presentations (10 min each)
·       Ricardo Morales: Road-side measurements of PM10 and PM2.5 during the “car-free day” in Bogotá, Colombia
·       Maria Fernanda Sánchez: Evaluation of the local atmospheric boundary layer behavior with lidar measurements
·       Manuel Roca: Analysis of local atmospheric boundary layer using radiosounding data
·       Aurélien-Chauvigne: A parallel study of aerosol optical properties on Boundary and Free Troposphere Layers at Chacaltaya, Bolivia and Puy-de-Dôme, France stations.
·       Ana Maria Sanches: GIS techniques applied for acquisition of ice cores for black carbon study in tropical glaciers.
15:30 – 17:30           Poster session (including coffee break)
19:30                        Dinner with all participants and lecturers (at salon Sumawara,  hotel Casa Grande)

Day 4: Thursday 25th June
8:30 – 9:30                From Absorption to black carbon – Thomas Müller (TROPOS, Germany)
9:30 – 10:30              Calculating Aerosol Radiative Forcing –Mike Bergin (Duke University, USA)
10:30 – 10:45            Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15            Instruments: Aethalometer, Grisa Mocnik, Magee (Slovenia)

13:45 – 15:15           Black carbon and air quality health impacts - Hans-Christen Hansson (ACES, U. Stockholm, Sweden)
15:15 – 16:15           Source apportionment studies: inorganic PM components– Noemí Pérez (IDAEA, Spain)
16:15 – 16:30           Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00           Melting glaciers with BC deposits - Patrick Ginot (OSUG-LGGE-IRD, France)

Day 5:  Friday 26th June
8:30 – 10:00             Measuring chemical composition – Radovan Krejci (ACES, U.Stockholm, Sweeden)
10:00 –11:00            Instruments: ECOC, Bob Cary (Sunset Lab., USA)
11:00 – 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15           Practical exercises

13:45 – 15:45           Practical exercises
15:45 – 16:45           Invited speaker: Mercury in the atmosphere – Aurélien Dommergue (LGGE, France)
16:45 – 17:00           Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00           Invited speaker: Physical and chemical properties of aerosols from Amazonia – Paulo Artaxo (USP, Brazil)

Day 6:  Saturday 27th June: Visit to the Chacaltaya GAW station and optative visit to Tiahuanaco
7:30       Departure from Hotel Calacoto
9:30       Arrival to Chacaltaya and visit to the station
12:30     Lunch and departure
15:00       Group 1: Arrival to Hotel Calacoto  by cablecar.
                Group 2: Arrival to Tiahuanaco archeological site (1.5 h visit)
19:00     Group 2: Arrival to Hotel Calacoto

We kindly ask the participants to read the safety manual (see link below) before going to the station and bring sunglasses (factor 4 if possible), warm clothes and sunscreen (SPF  or higher if possible).

http://www.chacaltaya.edu.bo/uploads/2/2/6/2/22626008/guidelines_mountain.pdf

After visiting Chacaltaya, those willing to visit the archeological site of Tiahuanaco need to book their space. The school will provide the bus, but the entrance fee would be up to each one.