Secondary organic aerosol formation from toluene in an atmospheric hydrocarbon mixture: Water and particle seed effects

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2324-2334

  Kamens, Richard M ^a   Zhang, Haofei ^a   Chen, Eric H ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a,b   Parikh, Harshal M ^a   Wilson, Rebecca L ^a   Galloway, Katherine E ^a   Rosen, Elias P ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Glyoxal; Secondary organic aerosol modeling; SOA yields; Toluene SOA; Water phase

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; ATMOSPHERIC HYDROCARBONS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; DRY ATMOSPHERES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GASPHASE; GLYOXAL; HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY; HYDROCARBON ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SUNLIGHT; OXIDES OF NITROGEN; PARTICLE NUCLEATION; PARTICLE PHASE; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL MODELING; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SEEDED SYSTEMS; SOA YIELDS; WATER PHASE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GASES; HYDROCARBONS; NUCLEATION; SEED; TOLUENE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; HYDROCARBON; TOLUENE; WATER;

AEROSOL; AMMONIUM; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TOLUENE; URBAN CLIMATE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; HUMIDITY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL;

EID: 79551497870     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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