Organic aerosol speciation: Intercomparison of thermal desorption aerosol GC/MS (TAG) and filter-based techniques

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-151

  Lambe, Andrew T ^a   Chacon Madrid, Heber J ^a   Nguyen, Ngoc T ^a   Weitkamp, Emily A ^a   Kreisberg, Nathan M ^b   Hering, Susanne V ^b   Goldstein, Allen H ^c   Donahue, Neil M ^a   Robinson, Allen L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AEROSOL DYNAMICS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AEROSOLS; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT MEASUREMENT; CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FILTER PERFORMANCE; FILTER-BASED TECHNIQUE; HOPANES; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL STANDARDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MATRIX EFFECTS; MOLECULAR MARKER; MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS; N-ALKANES; NONPOLAR SPECIES; OFF-LINE FILTERS; ORGANIC AEROSOL; PITTSBURGH; SMOG CHAMBERS; TAG SYSTEMS; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SOLVENTS; STANDARDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DESORPTION;

PARAFFINS;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKANOIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; HOPANOID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DESORPTION; EXHAUST GAS; FILTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STANDARD;

EID: 77949588236     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786820903447206     Document Type: Article

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