Identifying precursors and aqueous organic aerosol formation pathways during the SOAS campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 14409-14420

  Sareen, Neha ^a   Carlton, Annmarie G ^a,d   Surratt, Jason D ^b   Gold, Avram ^b   Lee, Ben ^c   Lopez Hilfiker, Felipe D ^c,e   Mohr, Claudia ^c,f   Thornton, Joel A ^c   Zhang, Zhenfa ^b   Lim, Yong B ^a,g   Turpin, Barbara J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FORMATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; OXIDATION;

ALABAMA; BRENT; ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84997605184     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-14409-2016     Document Type: Article

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