Decreasing Aerosol Water Is Consistent with OC Trends in the Southeast U.S.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7843-7850

  Nguyen, Thien Khoi V ^a   Capps, Shannon L ^b   Carlton, Annmarie G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUIDS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON;

HISTORICAL TRENDS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MASS CONCENTRATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SECONDARY PARTICULATE MATTERS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

RURAL AREAS;

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ISOPRENE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC CARBON; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; SULFATE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; WATER; AEROSOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RURAL AREA; THERMODYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; WATER MASS;

ACIDITY; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; OZONE LAYER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOLYSIS; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTENT; WATER TRANSPORT; WETTABILITY; AEROSOL; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

UNITED STATES;

AEROSOLS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; WATER;

EID: 84936792054     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00828     Document Type: Article

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