Evidence of aqueous secondary organic aerosol formation from biogenic emissions in the North American Sonoran Desert

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 3468-3472

  Youn, Jong Sang ^a   Wang, Zhen ^b   Wonaschütz, Anna ^c   Arellano, Avelino ^a   Betterton, Eric A ^a   Sorooshian, Armin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

aerosol; isoprene; NDVI; SOA; sulfate; WSOC

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MOISTURE PARAMETERS; NDVI; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SOA; SULFATE; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON; WSOC;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ISOPRENE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SUN;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; DESERT; ISOPRENE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONSOON; NDVI; ORGANIC CARBON; OZONE; SOLAR RADIATION; SULFATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 84880803352     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50644     Document Type: Article

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