INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOGENIC VOC EMISSIONS MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University

May 17th-18th 2011

A two day workshop was held at Lancaster University to discuss biogenic volatile organic compound emissions models and their applications. The workshop was financially supported in part by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science. The next workshop in this series is planned for spring 2013 at the UK Met Office.

Over 60 attendees from 16 different countries heard presentations on the atmospheric chemistry of bVOCs, the models used to estimate the emission rates of these compounds and their evaluation against measurements, and the application of emissions models for air quality and climate modelling. Discussions focused on the need to reduce the uncertainty in estimates of bVOC emissions and how this could be achieved.

WORKSHOP SUMMARY (pdf)

PRESENTATIONS

Folberth, G: Challenges in bVOC modelling (pdf)

Grote, R: The integration and test of bVOC models within a biosphere model (pdf)

Langford, B: The OP3 Project (pdf)

Lathičre, J: Coupling vegetation and emissions: example with ORCHIDEE (pdf)

Oderbolz, D: 3D modelling of biogenic secondary aerosol in Switzerland and Europe using different bVOC models (pdf)

Pacifico, F: bVOC emissions in JULES: model evaluation (pdf)

Rickard, A: Atmospheric HOx production: extra radicals from biogenic unsaturated VOCs? (pdf)

Simpson, D: Biogenic VOCs – impacts and experiences with the EMEP model (pdf)

Spracklen, D: Top-down constraint on the secondary organic aerosol budget (pdf)

Stavrakou, T: From methanol flux measurements to global methanol emissions constrained by space observations (pdf)

Viaene, P: Modelling of AQ in Belgium with a coupled chemical transport - bVOC emissions model (pdf)

Wolpert, B: Investigations on biogenic organic compounds in wind-throw areas in Bavarian National Parks (pdf)