Online volatile organic compound measurements using a newly developed proton-transfer ion-trap mass spectrometry instrument during New England Air Quality Study - Intercontinental transport and chemical transformation 2004: Performance, intercomparison, and compound identification

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5390-5397

  Warneke, Carsten ^a,b   Kato, Shuji ^b   De Gouw, Joost A ^a,b   Goldan, Paul D ^a   Kuster, William C ^a   Shao, Min ^c   Lovejoy, Edward R ^a   Fall, Ray ^b   Fehsenfeld, Fred C ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DISSOCIATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONS; PROTON BEAMS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ANALYSIS;

COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION MEASUREMENT; ONLINE TRACE GAS ANALYSIS; PROTON TRANSFER REACTION; PROTON-TRANSFER ION-TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY (PIT-MS);

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETONE; ACETONITRILE; METHANOL; PROPIONALDEHYDE;

AIR SAMPLING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DISSOCIATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNET; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEW ENGLAND; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 22344446272     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050602o     Document Type: Article

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