Significant formation of water-insoluble secondary organic aerosols in semi-arid urban environment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Favez, Olivier ^a   Sciare, Jean ^a   Cachier, Hélène ^a   Alfaro, Stéphane C ^b   Abdelwahab, Magdy M ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATOMIZERS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CARBON; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

DIURNAL PATTERNS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; ELEMENTAL CARBON; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SECONDARY ORGANIC CARBON; SEMI-ARID; SUB MICRONS; TRACER METHODS; URBAN BACKGROUND; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WATER-INSOLUBLE SPECIES; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TRACER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AFRICA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 53749104756     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034446     Document Type: Article

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