[PDF] Top 20 Field and Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol

... background aerosol typically shows a hygroscopic mode with growth factors around ...biogenic aerosol production (Swietlicki et ...of organic aerosols in the marine ...hydrocarbon-like organic ... See full document

... plastic container with a small proportion of native soil supplemented with Kettering loam and sur- face fed with dried and re-wetted horse manure [Lowe and Butt 2005]. These animals were main- tained at 15 ºC in ... See full document

... the field (Engler et ...the laboratory (An et ...high organic aerosol concentrations, allowing the model organic aerosol in their experiments to reach equilibrium in their ...the ... See full document

... This field unifies the evaluation of both natural and anthropogenic emissions, measurements of atmospheric composition across a range of temporal and spatial scales, and assessment of deposition processes ... See full document

... Since a considerable amount of work I did here involved field measurements, I thank the CIRPAS crew for making my time there productive as well as enjoyable. Thanks to Haf for making sure the entire payload runs ... See full document

... This interplay between laboratory studies of chemical, 121 photochemical, and physical processes, atmospheric modeling, and field measurements has 122 propelled the field of atmospheric [r] ... See full document

... continental aerosol particles and, despite the composi- tional similarity, at times size only captured ∼ 84 % of the CCN ...for atmospheric particles in a range between ...The field study κ aver- age ... See full document

... Typically, smog chamber experiments isolate a pollutant or a mixture of pollutants emitted by a source and focus on its chemistry. In most cases, clean air is used as the start- ing point of the experiment. While the ... See full document

... trace showed no sign of nucleation by either probe. In the NIR there was a strange baseline shape at times < 1 s, but it was not related to the aerosol. At 224 K there was an indication of the aerosol in ... See full document

... during laboratory chamber photooxidation of diesel and biomass burning emissions, volatile SOA precursors, which consist primarily of light aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene, and xylene, can account for ... See full document

... based on updated chamber data, a growing body of evidence suggests that the assumptions on which the Odum 2-product framework is based are simply not valid under ambient conditions (e.g. in- stantaneous, reversible ... See full document

... an aerosol size distribution reflects the mechanism of growth (22, 29), we demonstrate here that it provides a key constraint in interpreting laboratory and ambient SOA ...and organic hydroperoxides ... See full document

... two field campaigns (2003 and 2006), Mexico City was found to have, on average, 70% modern carbon (Marley et ...of aerosol at 12 US sites by Schichtel et ...carbonaceous aerosol in a variety of ... See full document

... hugely from John as a successful manager: his ability to effectively manage time and resources so that he can always return emails in minutes, his feedback on my drafts or proposals in days, and be available for all the ... See full document

... and organic non-light-absorbing components via coagulation with other particles and condensation of vapors ...Recent studies with a Single- Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) have revealed that fresh ... See full document

... seed aerosol. Kroll et al. (2005) did not observe any organic growth for methylglyoxal, but the growth from imidazoles, which proceeds via an α-dicarbonyl monomer, might have been below the detection ...in ... See full document

... I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisors, Professor John Seinfeld and Professor Richard Flagan, for their continuous trust, support, and guidance throughout the years. Their scientific insights are ... See full document

... previous field studies (Häkkinen et ...across studies should not be made based on measured ...sampled aerosol (Cappa, 2010; Riipinen et ...the aerosol reaches equilibrium inside a TD ... See full document

... Earth’s clouds can lead to large changes in the overall energy balance on the globe [Lohmann and Feichter, 2005]. Twomey [1974] postulated that an increase in the number concentration of atmospheric aerosol ... See full document

... in atmospheric aerosols and ac- counts for a major fraction of particulate matter mass (Zhang et ...particulate organic matter (POM) is sec- ondary in origin, comprising condensable oxidation products of ... See full document