Equilibration timescale of atmospheric secondary organic aerosol partitioning

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Shiraiwa, Manabu ^a   Seinfeld, John H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE MATTER; BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; GAS-PARTICLE PARTITIONING; GAS-PHASE CONCENTRATION; HIGH VOLATILITY; KINETIC FLUXES; LARGE PARTICLES; LIQUID PARTICLE; LOW MASS; ORGANIC AEROSOL; OXIDATION PRODUCTS; PARTICLE MASS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SEMI-SOLIDS; TIME-SCALES; VOC OXIDATIONS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL FORMATION; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTITIONING; REACTION KINETICS; TIMESCALE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 84871258925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054008     Document Type: Article

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