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1 Dec 2009
Scientists from the Centre for Atmospheric Science have recently been awarded four grants in the NERC Technology Proof of Concept directed programme. The grants awarded have a combined value of over £600,000.
The projects funded include development of novel instrumentation for atmospheric and laboratory measurements and software development for modelling studies. Details of the individual projects are listed below.
A Novel Controlled Thermal Desorption Technique for Evaluation of Organic Aerosol Component Volatility and Absorptive Partitioning (G. McFiggans, M. Alfarra, M. Flynn).
Novel informatic software for automated aerosol component property predictions and ensemble predictions for direct model - measurement comparison (D. Topping, G. McFiggans).
The development of a Lithium-attachment chemical ionization mass spectrometer for studies in the atmosphere (C. Percival, M. Alfarra, M. Benyezzar, D. Topping).
A miniature Atmospheric Particle Classifier (APC) (M. Gallagher joint with University of Hertforshire).
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