Levoglucosan stability in biomass burning particles exposed to hydroxyl radicals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Hennigan, Christopher J ^a   Sullivan, Amy P ^b   Collett Jr , Jeffrey L ^b   Robinson, Allen L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; GASPHASE; HYDROXYL RADICALS; LEVOGLUCOSAN; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE KINETICS; SMOG CHAMBERS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TIME-SCALES;

AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS PHASE REACTION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; REACTION KINETICS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SMOG; TIMESCALE;

EID: 77949549761     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043088     Document Type: Article

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