Simulations of smog-chamber experiments using the two-dimensional volatility basis set: Linear oxygenated precursors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 11179-11186

  Chacon Madrid, Heber J ^a   Murphy, Benjamin N ^a   Pandis, Spyros N ^a,b   Donahue, Neil M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS SETS; BOX MODELS; HYBRID MODEL; PRECURSOR MOLECULES; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS;

HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULES;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

2 TRIDECANONE; 7 TRIDECANONE; DECANE; N TRIDECANAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PENTADECANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; LINEARITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SMOG; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLATILIZATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; OXYGENATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SIMULATION; SMOG; TWO DIMENSIONAL VOLATILITY BASIS SET;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALKANES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SMOG; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84870006278     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3017232     Document Type: Article

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