Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere

Introduction: Shaping the Future and Environmental Policy.- Opening address by the Chairperson of IEC EUROTRAC-2: Science in support of policy development.- Research on atmospheric composition within the EC environment programme of FP5.- AFO 2000: Atmospheric research in 2000 and beyond.- Shaping the future of atmospheric science.- Model quality assurance.- Protocols on HMs and POPs: Progress and scientific needs.- Clean air for Europe.- Highlights of the Subprojects.- AEROSOL: The art of aerosol measurement and modelling within AEROSOL.- BIATEX-2: Measurement and interpretation of land-atmosphere aerosol fluxes: Current issues and new approaches.- CAPMAN: Flux divergence of reactive nitrogen over the coastal ocean.- CMD: Laboratory studies and mechanism development for tropospheric aqueous particle chemistry.- GENEMIS: Experimental evaluation of the calculated, highly resolved emission inventories (EVA).- GLOREAM: Integration of regional, urban background and street canyon models for operational air pollution forecasting.- LOOP: Limitation of ozone production on a local and regional scale.- MEPOP: Atmospheric cycling of mercury and persistent organic pollutants: MEPOP overview and highlights from on-going mercury research in Europe.- PROCLOUD: Phase partitioning of chemical species in mixed clouds during CIME.- SATURN: Advances in urban air quality management systems.- TOR-2: Origins and observations of the spring ozone maximum. Theory and experiment.- TRAP45: Learning from past air pollution control strategies in European cities.- Plenary.- Tropospheric ozone: Past, present and future.- Aerosols.- Regional modelling of atmospheric aerosols.- Fine particles from traffic.- Organic aerosols: Origin, composition and influence on tropospheric processes.- Heterogeneous chemistry and aerosol/cloud interactions.- Photooxidants.- Photooxidant studies using the European photoreactor EUPHORE.- Master chemical mechanisms: Comparison with the real world.- On the evaluation of atmospheric models: Modelled ozone values compared to results from field campaigns.- Instrument Development / Probing the Troposphere.- Remote sensing of tropospheric constituents from space.- Airborne lidar application for atmospheric chemistry.- Recent trends in the characterisation of atmospheric aerosols by laser techniques.- Isotopic securities and surprises in the air.- Surface-Atmosphere Interactions.- Biogenic emission modelling on a regional scale: Some recent improvements.- Emission estimates from road traffic - State of the art and uncertainties.- The role of surface waves in modulating momentum, heat and chemical flux.- Measurement Campaigns.- VOTALP II: Vertical Ozone Transports in the ALPs II.- ESCOMPTE: FiEld experimentS to COnstrain Models of atmospheric Pollution and Transport of Emissions.- CARIBIC: Results and status of the aircraft research project CARIBIC.- List of Extended Poster Abstracts.- As found on the enclosed CD-ROM.- Author Index.