Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4182-4189

  Chen, Qi ^a,b   Heald, Colette L ^a   Jimenez, Jose L ^c   Canagaratna, Manjula R ^d   Zhang, Qi ^e   He, Ling Yan ^b   Huang, Xiao Feng ^b   Campuzano Jost, Pedro ^c   Palm, Brett B ^c   Poulain, Laurent ^f   Kuwata, Mikinori ^g,h   Martin, Scot T ^g   Abbatt, Jonathan P D ⁱ   Lee, Alex K Y ⁱ   Liggio, John ^j  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

aqueous phase SOA; elemental composition; elemental ratios; organic aerosol; SOA

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS PHASE; AQUEOUS PHASE OXIDATIONS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL RATIOS; LABORATORY DATUM; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; ORGANIC AEROSOL;

LABORATORIES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIRCRAFT; AMBIENT AIR; DATA SET; LABORATORY METHOD; OXIDATION;

EID: 84931571422     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063693     Document Type: Article

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