Polar organic marker compounds in PM2.5 aerosol from a mixed forest site in western Germany

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1308-1314

  Kourtchev, Ivan ^a   Warnke, Jörg ^b   Maenhaut, Willy ^c   Hoffmann, Thorsten ^b   Claeys, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

pinene; Gas chromatography Mass spectrometry; Isoprene; Levoglucosan; Secondary organic aerosol

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FATTY ACIDS; GAS DYNAMICS; OLEFINS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PHOTOOXIDATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SMOKE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; THERMOCHEMISTRY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AEROSOL FORMATIONS; AEROSOL SAMPLES; AEROSOL SOURCES; BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; BIOMASS COMBUSTIONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRIES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; GERMANY; ISOPRENE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; MALIC ACIDS; MEDIAN CONCENTRATIONS; MIXED FORESTS; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; MOLECULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; ORGANIC MARKER COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SPECIES; OXIDATION PRODUCTS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

3 METHYL 1,2,3 BUTANE TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; FATTY ACID; GLUTARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ISOPRENE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; PINENE; PYROGALLOL; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SUGAR; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FATTY ACID; MIXED FOREST; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOTOOXIDATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; FOREST; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; SUMMER;

ACIDS, ACYCLIC; AEROSOLS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; BIOMASS; BUTADIENES; CARBOHYDRATES; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GERMANY; HEMITERPENES; MONOTERPENES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PENTANES; PHOTOLYSIS; TREES; VOLATILIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; JULICH; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 54049151932     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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