The objective of this work was to develop and assess an automatic procedure to generate reduced chemical schemes for the atmospheric photooxidation of volatile organic carbon (VOC) compounds. The procedure is based on (i) the development of a tool for writing the fully explicit schemes for VOC oxidation (see companion paper Aumont et al., 2005), (ii) the application of several commonly used red...

The College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) at the University of California (UCR) is undertaking a new project to develop a “Next Generation” environmental chamber for evaluating chemical mechanisms under lower pollutant conditions than has previously been possible (Carter et al., 1999). A major objective of this project is to generate mechanism evalua...

Evaluation of a new lightning-produced NOx parameterization for cloud resolving models and its associated uncertainties C. Barthe and M. C. Barth National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA now at: Laboratoire d’Aérologie, CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Received: 18 February 2008 – Accepted: 10 March 2008 – Published: 4 April 2008 Correspondence to: C. Barthe (ch...

[1] A three-dimensional photochemical model has been used to interpret aircraft measurements from the Atmospheric Pollution Over the Paris Area campaign near Paris, with special attention to measurements that are related to predicted O3-NOx-volatile organic compound (VOC) sensitivity. The model (CHIMERE) includes a representation of ozone formation over Europe and a more detailed spatial repres...

Previously we demonstrated that two doses of a replication-defective human adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) carrying the capsid (P1) and 3C protease coding regions of a laboratory strain of FMDV (A12) completely protected five of six swine challenged with homologous virus. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of one dose of an Ad5-vectored vaccine expressing the P1 coding ...

There is still confusion about the correct form of the area law for the baryonic Wilson loop (BWL) of QCD. Strong-coupling (i.e., finite lattice spacing in lattice gauge theory) approximations suggest the form exp[−KAY ], where K is the qq̄ string tension and AY is the global minimum area, generically a three-bladed area with the blades joined along a Steiner line (Y configuration). However, the...