Spatial and seasonal trends in biogenic secondary organic aerosol tracers and water-soluble organic carbon in the Southeastern United States

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5171-5176

  Ding, Xiang ^a,d   Zheng, Mei ^a   Yu, Liping ^a   Zhang, Xiaolu ^a   Weber, Rodney J ^a   Yan, Bo ^a   Russell, Armistead G ^b   Edgerton, Eric S ^c   Wang, Xinming ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Atmospheric Research and Analysis Inc   (United States)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ELECTRIC FILTERS;

FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5); INTEGRATED FILTERS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL (SOA); UNITED STATES; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON (WSOC);

ORGANIC CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TRACER;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTER; ORGANIC CARBON; RURAL ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; UNITED STATES;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SUGAR ALCOHOLS; WATER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48249127143     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7032636     Document Type: Article

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