Estimating the contribution of organic acids to northern hemispheric continental organic aerosol

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 6084-6090

  Yatavelli, Reddy L N ^a,b   Mohr, Claudia ^c,d   Stark, Harald ^a,e   Day, Douglas A ^a   Thompson, Samantha L ^a   Lopez Hilfiker, Felipe D ^c   Campuzano Jost, Pedro ^a   Palm, Brett B ^a   Vogel, Alexander L ^f,g   Hoffmann, Thorsten ^f   Heikkinen, Liine ^h   Äijälä, Mikko ^h   Ng, Nga L ^i,j   Kimmel, Joel R ^e,k   Canagaratna, Manjula R ^e   Ehn, Mikael ^h   Junninen, Heikki ^h   Cubison, Michael J ^k   Petäjä, Tuukka ^h   Kulmala, Markku ^h   Jayne, John T ^e   Worsnop, Douglas R ^e,h   Jimenez, Jose L ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g CERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^j GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k TOFWERK AG   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

AMS; CIMS; m z 44; organic acids; organic aerosol; oxidized organic aerosol

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULES; ORGANIC ACIDS; URBAN GROWTH;

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; CIMS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; M/Z 44; MASS CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC AEROSOL; PARTICLE PHASE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DATA SET; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

COLORADO; FINLAND; HYYTIALA; PIRKANMAA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938995196     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064650     Document Type: Article

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