Chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon

A Laskin, J Laskin, SA Nizkorodov - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Organic carbon (OC) accounts for a large fraction of atmospheric aerosol and has profound
effects on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate forcing. The molecular composition …

Formation of urban fine particulate matter

R Zhang, G Wang, S Guo, ML Zamora, Q Ying… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Urban air pollution represents one of the greatest environmental challenges facing mankind
in the 21st century. 1, 2 Noticeably, many developing countries, such as China and India …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol

NL Ng, SS Brown, AT Archibald, E Atlas… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) by the nitrate radical (NO 3)
represents one of the important interactions between anthropogenic emissions related to …

Optical properties of secondary organic aerosols and their changes by chemical processes

T Moise, JM Flores, Y Rudich - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Atmospheric aerosols play a key role in the Earth's atmosphere.
Aerosols influence cloud formation and their lifetime, they affect the distribution and amount …

Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

BH Lee, C Mohr, FD Lopez-Hilfiker… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Speciated particle-phase organic nitrates (pONs) were quantified using online chemical
ionization MS during June and July of 2013 in rural Alabama as part of the Southern Oxidant …

Molecular characterization of brown carbon (BrC) chromophores in secondary organic aerosol generated from photo-oxidation of toluene

P Lin, J Liu, JE Shilling, SM Kathmann… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) is a significant contributor to light absorption and climate
forcing. However, little is known about a fundamental relationship between the chemical …

Description and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.1

KW Appel, SL Napelenok, KM Foley… - Geoscientific model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model is a comprehensive multipollutant air
quality modeling system developed and maintained by the US Environmental Protection …

A global simulation of brown carbon: implications for photochemistry and direct radiative effect

DS Jo, RJ Park, S Lee, SW Kim… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Recent observations suggest that a certain fraction of organic carbon (OC) aerosol
effectively absorbs solar radiation, which is also known as brown carbon (BrC) aerosol …

Ubiquity of organic nitrates from nighttime chemistry in the European submicron aerosol

A Kiendler‐Scharr, AA Mensah, E Friese… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere nighttime removal of volatile organic compounds is initiated to a large
extent by reaction with the nitrate radical (NO3) forming organic nitrates which partition …

Secondary organic aerosol formation from the β-pinene+NO3 system: effect of humidity and peroxy radical fate

CM Boyd, J Sanchez, L Xu, AJ Eugene… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from the oxidation of β-pinene via nitrate
radicals is investigated in the Georgia Tech Environmental Chamber (GTEC) facility. Aerosol …