Project acronym: EUROCHAMP
Project full title: Integration of European Simulation Chambers for Investigating
Atmospheric Processes
Contract no.: RII3-CT-2004-505968
Integrating Activity
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Project objectives and summary
The project integrates the most important environmental reaction chambers in Europe for studying atmospheric
processes into a Europe-wide infrastructure. The consortium of partners provide their expertise and experience in
atmospheric chemistry to researchers of different disciplines, policy and industry and offer an infrastructure that
can be used by interested parties for solving a large variety of problems related to atmospheric science.
The major goals of the project are:
•the initiation of an effective interdisciplinary collaboration between the community of atmospheric scientists
and colleagues from other disciplines that are closely related to it. This will be achieved through the three
networking activities of EUROCHAMP.
•the optimisation and further development of the infrastructures' performance. In order to meet these goals, two
corresponding research activities are defined in the EUROCHAMP work programme, namely the development
and refinement of analytical equipment and the development of chemical modelling techniques.
Besides the project partners, a number of selected associated user groups with a high grade of expertise in the
different fields of interest provide their experience either as advisers to special topics or as potential users of the
infrastructure.
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Project webpage: www.eurochamp.org
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Start date: 1 June 2004
Duration: 60 months
4.
Achievements
The project integrates the most important environmental reaction chambers in Europe for studying atmospheric
processes into a Europe-wide infrastructure. The consortium of partners provide their expertise and experience in
atmospheric chemistry to researchers of different disciplines, policy and industry and offer an infrastructure that
can be used by interested parties for solving a large variety of problems related to atmospheric science.
The major goals of the project are:

the initiation of an effective interdisciplinary collaboration between the community of atmospheric
scientists and colleagues from other disciplines that are closely related to it. This will be achieved through
the three networking activities of EUROCHAMP.

the optimisation and further development of the infrastructures' performance. In order to meet these goals,
two corresponding research activities are defined in the EUROCHAMP work programme, namely the
development and refinement of analytical equipment and the development of chemical modelling
techniques.
During the first year of the project several activities were performed in the different networking and joint
research activities.
In addition to the definition of rules for quality assured raw data analyses, standard experiments in chambers and
intercomparison studies (N1) a standardized data protocol and the set-up of a central data base of environmental
chamber studies was discussed (N2). A test version of the data base is now available at the WWW.
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Two workshops addressed to special topics, namely atmospheric chemistry and cultural heritage
protection/health effects and a workshop on nanoparticles were organised. Both workshops were attended by
several scientists from different EU- and non-EU countries. The workshop proceedings are available at the
projects homepage.
Within the two joint research activities significant progress was made towards the further development and the
design of novel instrumentation and the development of chemical models.
No significant deviation or delay occurred during the first year of the project with respect to technical annex. The
work within networking activity N2 is slightly behind schedule, whereas for networking activities N1 and N3
and the joint research activities JRA1 and JRA2 work somewhat further than expected.
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List of participants
The following legal entities are participants to the contract:
Participant
number
Organisation
(name, city, country)
Participant
short name
Date enter
project
Date exit
project
Short description (i.e. fields of excellence) and specific roles in
the consortium
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Bergische Universität
Wuppertal, Wuppertal,
Germany
BUW
Start of project
End of project
Co-ordinator, organising and participating in network activities,
participant to research activities; development of novel instrumentation
for measuring nitric acid; fields of excellence: indoor photoreactor
studies (gas phase and heterogeneous reactions)
2
Joint Research Centre,
Ispra, Italy
JRC
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
aerosols; fields of excellence: indoor and outdoor photoreactor studies,
characterisation of aerosols
3
Forschungszentrum
Jülich, Jülich, Germany
FZJ
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
oxygenated species and radical species; fields of excellence: outdoor
photoreactor studies at very clean conditions, dark chamber studies of
aerosol reactions, development of analytical devices
4
Fundación Centro de
Estudios Ambientales
de Mediterráneo,
Valencia, Spain
CEAM
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
radical species; fields of excellence: outdoor photoreactor studies,
development of analytical devices
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Universität Bayreuth,
Bayreuth, Germany
UBAY
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
aerosols; fields of excellence: investigation of aerosol reactions (organic
coatings of pesticides and POPs and deliquescent sea-salt) in indoor
photoreactors
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Participant
number
Organisation
(name, city, country)
Participant
short name
Date enter
project
Date exit
project
Short description (i.e. fields of excellence) and specific roles in
the consortium
6
University College
Cork, Cork, Ireland
UCC
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; development of new
sampling system for chamber studies, data analysis and quality
assurance, construction of data protocol and database; fields of
excellence: kinetic and mechanistic indoor photoreactor studies in the
gas phase
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Centre National de la
Rechèrche Scientifique
(CNRS-LCSR),
Orleans, France
CNRS
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
oxygenated species and radical species; fields of excellence: kinetic and
mechanistic indoor photoreactor studies in the gas phase
8
Paul-Scherrer-Institute,
Villigen, Switzerland
PSI
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
oxygenates and radical species; fields of excellence: aerosol formation
and characterisation of aerosol properties
9
Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe,
Germany
FZK
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
aerosols; fields of excellence: evacuable chamber studies of aerosolcloud interactions, reactions, and optical properties as function of
temperature. Comprehensive modelling.
10
University of Leeds,
Leeds, United Kingdom
LEEDS
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; characterisation of
radical species; fields of excellence: in-situ radical measurements in
chamber studies, chemical modelling of photoreactor experiments
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SP Swedish National
Testing and Research
Institute, Borås,
Sweden
SP
Start of project
End of project
Participant to networking and research activities; development of novel
instrumentation for measuring nitric acid; fields of excellence: smog
chamber studies (gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions), material
emission and exposure studies, indoor atmospheric chemistry
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