Impacts of Stabilized Criegee Intermediates, surface uptake processes and higher aromatic secondary organic aerosol yields on predicted PM2.5 concentrations in the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 438-447

  Ying, Qi ^a   Cureño, Iris V ^b   Chen, Gang ^a   Ali, Sajjad ^a   Zhang, Hongliang ^a,d   Malloy, Meagan ^c   Bravo, Humberto A ^b   Sosa, Rodolfo ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic hydrocarbon; Mexico City; Secondary organic aerosol; Secondary sulfate; Stabilized Criegee Intermediates; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; AROMATIZATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODELS; CRIEGEE INTERMEDIATES; MEXICO CITY; PHOTOCHEMICAL MECHANISM; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SECONDARY SULFATE; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; UNSATURATED HYDROCARBONS;

REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

ALKENE; GLYOXAL; METHYLGLYOXAL; SULFATE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; REACTION KINETICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; METEOROLOGY; MEXICO; OZONOLYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT PARAMETERS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; STABILIZED CRIEGEE INTERMEDIATE;

FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; MEXICO CITY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84901483741     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.05.056     Document Type: Article

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