The University of California, Riverside Environmental Chamber Data Base for Evaluating Oxidant Mechanism. Indoor Chamber Experiments through 1993

William P. L. Carter, Dongmin Luo, Irina L. Malkina and Dennis Fitz

Project Report for
Cooperative Agreement 815779, United States Environmental Protection Agency

March 20, 1995

This two report describes the data base of University of California, Riverside, environmental chamber experiments for use when evaluating photochemical mechanisms for urban and regional airshed models. This includes data obtained using the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center (SAPRC) Evacuable Chamber (EC), Indoor Teflon Chamber #1 (ITC), Indoor Teflon Chamber #2 (ETC), Dividable Teflon Chamber (DTC), and Xenon arc Teflon Chamber (XTC) between September of 1975 through November of 1993. This document provides backing information and data for that data set as well. This document lists and summarizes the experiments, summarizes the facility and procedures employed, documents the analytical and monitoring methods and their calibration data and associated uncertainties, assigns and documents the input data needed to conduct model simulations of the experiments in the present data base, and describes the format of the data sets which are distributed with this document on computer diskettes. Files are included in the distribution to permit modeling of the experiments in the present data base using the SAPRC-90 and the Carbon Bond IV chemical mechanisms, though a full mechanism evaluation procedure is beyond the scope of this report. Recommendations are made concerning the steps that need to be taken before using these data to evaluate chemical mechanisms.

This report consists of two volumes. Volume 1 contains the main body of the text documenting the data base, and Volume 2 contains the three appendices. Appendix A contains printouts of spreadsheets containing summaries of the runs in the data base. Appendix B contains tabulations of the NOx and GC calibration data, which are too lengthy to include in the main body of the report. Appendix C describes how to install the distributed data files and software on a computer and how to conduct initial model simulations of the runs using the SAPRC modeling software and the SAPRC-90 and Carbon Bond IV mechanisms.