Molecular understanding of atmospheric particle formation from sulfuric acid and large oxidized organic molecules

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17223-17228

  Schobesberger, Siegfried ^a   Junninen, Heikki ^a   Bianchi, Federico ^b   Lönn, Gustaf ^a   Ehn, Mikael ^a   Lehtipalo, Katrianne ^a   Dommen, Josef ^b   Ehrhart, Sebastian ^c   Ortega, Ismael K ^a   Franchin, Alessandro ^a   Nieminen, Tuomo ^a   Riccobono, Francesco ^b   Hutterli, Manuel ^d   Duplissy, Jonathan ^a   Almeida, João ^c   Amorim, Antonio ^e   Breitenlechner, Martin ^f   Downard, Andrew J ^g   Dunne, Eimear M ^h,i   Flagan, Richard C ^g   Kajos, Maija ^a   Keskinen, Helmi ^j   Kirkby, Jasper ^k   Kupc, Agnieszka ^l   Kürten, Andreas ^c   Kurtén, Theo ^a   Laaksonen, Ari ^i,j   Mathot, Serge ^k   Onnela, Antti ^k   Praplan, Arnaud P ^a,b   Rondo, Linda ^c   Santos, Filipe D ^e   Schallhart, Simon ^a   Schnitzhofer, Ralf ^f   Sipilä, Mikko ^a   Tomé, António ^e   Tsagkogeorgas, Georgios ^m   Vehkamäki, Hanna ^a   Wimmer, Daniela ^a,c   Baltensperger, Urs ^b   Carslaw, Kenneth S ^h   Curtius, Joachim ^c   Hansel, Armin ^f,n   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a   Kulmala, Markku ^a   Donahue, Neil M ^o   Worsnop, Douglas R ^a,k,m,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d TOFWERK AG   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^g California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^k CERN   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^m LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁿ IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^o CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Aerosol particles; Atmospheric chemistry; Atmospheric nucleation; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; DIMETHYLAMINE; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; PROTON; SULFURIC ACID; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; STOICHIOMETRY; TAIGA; VAPOR;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERE; DIMETHYLAMINES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONOTERPENES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFURIC ACIDS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84886419621     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306973110     Document Type: Article

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