Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0880850

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0880850

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sulfuric acid formation from atmospheric sulfur trioxide and disulfur oxide: is one water molecule enough? Sulfate aerosols significantly affect the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth, influencing the nett energy balance, and mitigating the greenhouse effect. A major source of these aerosols is sulfuric acid. Understanding the sources and formation rates of sulfuric acid production is of considerable importance for global climate models. This project will provide significant insight into the sulfur oxides and their water clusters, relevant to sulfuric acid formation, providing data applicable to the modelling of planetary atmospheres, especially timely for the Venus Express mission, and more importantly, the building of comprehensive climate models.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $390,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Chemical Spectroscopy | Atomic And Molecular Physics | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Atmospheric processes | Chemical sciences |

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