Effect of relative humidity on gas/particle partitioning and aerosol mass yield in the photooxidation of p-xylene

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1884-1889

  Healy, Robert M ^a   Temime, Brice ^b   Kuprovskyte, Kristina ^a   Wenger, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[CARBONYL; AEROSOL FORMATIONS; AEROSOL MASS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CARBONYL PRODUCTS; DECAY RATES; DENUDER; DICARBONYLS; GAS/PARTICLE PARTITIONING; GLYOXAL; HYDROXYL RADICALS; METHYLGLYOXAL; OH CONCENTRATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; P XYLENES; PARTICLE-PHASE REACTIONS; PARTITIONING COEFFICIENTS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE HUMIDITY RANGES; SAMPLING TECHNIQUES; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS;

ALDEHYDES; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBONYLATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); MOISTURE; PHOTOOXIDATION; WATER VAPOR; XYLENE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ALDEHYDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; GLYOXAL; HYDROXYL RADICAL; METHYLGLYOXAL; NITROUS OXIDE; PARA XYLENE;

AEROSOL FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARTITIONING; PHOTOOXIDATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; XYLENE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS; HUMIDITY; PHOTOOXIDATION; SIMULATION; WATER VAPOR;

AEROSOLS; GASES; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; XYLENES;

EID: 64549095464     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802404z     Document Type: Article

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