Particle-phase chemistry of secondary organic material: Modeled compared to measured O:C and H:C Elemental ratios provide constraints

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4763-4770

  Chen, Qi ^a   Liu, Yingjun ^a   Donahue, Neil M ^b   Shilling, John E ^c   Martin, Scot T ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETERS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; CHEMICAL PATHWAYS; COMPLEX MODELING; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; GROUP CONTRIBUTION METHOD; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; HOMOLYTIC DECOMPOSITION; LABORATORY STUDIES; MASTER CHEMICAL MECHANISM; ORGANIC HYDROPEROXIDES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; PARTICLE MASS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLEFINS; OLIGOMERIZATION; OLIGOMERS;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

BETA CARYOPYHLLENE; CARBON; ELEMENT; HYDROGEN; ISOPRENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; PINENE; SECONDARY ORGANIC MATERIAL; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; ISOPRENE; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; RADICAL; TERPENE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; MASS SPECTROMETER; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; VAPOR;

AEROSOLS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEROXIDES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79957857878     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104398s     Document Type: Article

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