Texas Air Quality Study II

TexAQS II


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Project Description:
Airborne and ship-based measurements using PTR-MS, LPAS, PIT-MS and TACOH in the eastern United States to study air quality in east Texas and Houston in particular

Platforms:
NOAA WP-3D
NOAA r/v Ronald H. Brown

Period:
August - October, 2006


Publications About This Project:

Special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

Determination of biogenic emissions in the Eastern United States and Texas and comparison with biogenic emission inventories
C. Warneke, J.A. De Gouw, L. Del Negro, J. Brioude, S. McKeen, H. Stark, W.C. Kuster, P.D. Goldan, M. Trainer, F.C. Fehsenfeld, C. Wiedinmyer, A.B. Guenther, A. Hansel, A. Wisthaler and E. Atlas
Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, in press (2009).

Organic aerosol formation in urban and industrial plumes near Houston and Dallas, Texas
R. Bahreini, B. Ervens, A.M. Middlebrook, C. Warneke, J.A. de Gouw, P.F. DeCarlo, J.L. Jimenez, C.A. Brock, J.A. Neuman, T.B. Ryerson, H. Stark, E. Atlas, J. Brioude, A. Fried, J.S. Holloway, J. Peischl, D. Richter, J. Walega, P. Weibring, A.G. Wollny and F.C. Fehsenfeld
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 114, D00F16, doi:10.1029/2008JD011493 (2009).

An evaluation of real-time air quality forecasts and their urban emissions over Eastern Texas during the summer of 2006 Second Texas Air Quality Study field study
S. McKeen, G. Grell, S. Peckham, J. Wilczak, I. Djalalova, E.Y. Hsie, G. Frost, J. Peischl, J. Schwarz, R. Spackman, J. Holloway, J. de Gouw, C. Warneke, W. Gong, V. Bouchet, S. Gadreault, J. Racine, J. McHenry, J. McQueen, P. Lee, Y. Tang, G.R. Carmichael and R. Mathur
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 114, D00F11, doi:10.1029/2008JD011697 (2009).

Measurements of volatile organic compounds during the 2006 TexAQS/GoMACCS campaign: industrial influences, regional characteristics, and diurnal dependencies of the OH reactivity
J.B. Gilman, W.C. Kuster, P.D. Goldan, S.C. Herndon, M.S. Zahniser, S.C. Tucker, W.A. Brewer, B.M. Lerner, E.J. Williams, R.A. Harley, F.C. Fehsenfeld, C. Warneke and J.A. de Gouw
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 114, D00F06, doi:10.1029/2008JD011525 (2009).

Airborne measurements of ethene from industrial sources using laser photo-acoustic spectroscopy
J.A. de Gouw, S. te Lintel Hekkert, J. Mellqvist, C. Warneke, E.L. Atlas, F.C. Fehsenfeld, A. Fried, G.J. Frost, F.J.M. Harren, J.S. Holloway, B. Lefer, R. Lueb, J.F. Meagher, D.D. Parrish, M. Patel, L. Pope, D. Richter, C. Rivera, T.B. Ryerson, J. Samuelsson, J. Walega, R.A. Washenfelder, P. Weibring and X. Zhu
Environmental Science & Technology, 43, 2437-2442 (2009).

Measurement of aerosol organic compounds using a novel collection/thermal-desorption PTR-ITMS instrument
T. Thornberry, D.M. Murphy, D.S. Thomson, J. de Gouw, C. Warneke, T.S. Bates, P.K. Quinn and D. Coffman
Aerosol Science and Technology, 43, 486-501 (2009).

Empirical correlations between black carbon aerosol and carbon monoxide in the lower and middle troposphere
J.R. Spackman, J.P. Schwarz, R.S. Gao, L.A. Watts, D.S. Thomson, D.W. Fahey, J.S. Holloway, J.A. de Gouw, M. Trainer and T.B. Ryerson
Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L19816, doi:10.1029/2008GL035237 (2008).

Measurement of the mixing state, mass, and optical size of individual black carbon particles in urban and biomass burning emissions
J.P. Schwarz, R.S. Gao, J.R. Spackman, L.A. Watts, D.S. Thomson, D.W. Fahey, T.B. Ryerson, J. Peischl, J.S. Holloway, M. Trainer, G.J. Frost, T. Baynard, D.A. Lack, J.A. De Gouw, C. Warneke and L.A. Del Negro
Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L13810, doi:10.1029/2008GL033968 (2008).

Mixing between a stratospheric intrusion and a biomass burning plume
J. Brioude, O.R. Cooper, M. Trainer, T.B. Ryerson, J.S. Holloway, T. Baynard, J. Peischl, C. Warneke, J.A. Neuman, J. De Gouw, A. Stohl, S. Eckhardt, G.J. Frost, S.A. McKeen, E.Y. Hsie, F.C. Fehsenfeld and P. Nedelec
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 4229-4235 (2007).