Ubiquitous atmospheric production of organic acids mediated by cloud droplets

B Franco, T Blumenstock, C Cho, L Clarisse… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric acidity is increasingly determined by carbon dioxide and organic acids,–.
Among the latter, formic acid facilitates the nucleation of cloud droplets and contributes to …

A general framework for global retrievals of trace gases from IASI: Application to methanol, formic acid, and PAN

B Franco, L Clarisse, T Stavrakou… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Retrieving concentrations of minor atmospheric trace gases from satellite observations is
challenging due to their weak spectral signature. Here we present a new version of the ANNI …

Spaceborne measurements of formic and acetic acids: A global view of the regional sources

B Franco, L Clarisse, T Stavrakou… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Formic (HCOOH) and acetic acids (COOH) are the most abundant carboxylic acids in the
Earth's atmosphere and key compounds to aqueous‐phase chemistry. Here we present the …

Exceptional Wildfire Enhancements of PAN, C2H4, CH3OH, and HCOOH Over the Canadian High Arctic During August 2017

T Wizenberg, K Strong, DBA Jones… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme enhancements in the total columns of carbon monoxide (CO), peroxyacetyl nitrate
(PAN), ethylene (C2H4), methanol (CH3OH), and formic acid (HCOOH) were observed over …

First retrievals of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) from ground-based FTIR solar spectra recorded at remote sites, comparison with model and satellite data

E Mahieu, EV Fischer, B Franco, M Palm… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) is the main tropospheric reservoir of NO x (NO+ NO2). Its lifetime
can reach several months in the upper cold troposphere. This enables the long-range …

Detection of HCOOH, CH3OH, CO, HCN, and C2H6 in Wildfire Plumes Transported Over Toronto Using Ground‐Based FTIR Measurements From 2002–2018

S Yamanouchi, K Strong, E Lutsch… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer at the University of Toronto Atmospheric
Observatory has been operational since 2002, collecting solar absorption spectra from …

Underrated primary biogenic origin and lifetime of atmospheric formic and acetic acid

X Lee, D Huang, Q Liu, X Liu, H Zhou, Q Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Formic and acetic acids are ubiquitous in the troposphere, playing an important role in the
atmospheric chemistry. Recent model studies ended up with substantial low bias on their …

Homologous series of low molecular weight (C1-C10) monocarboxylic acids, benzoic acid and hydroxyacids in fine-mode (PM2. 5) aerosols over the Bay of Bengal …

SKR Boreddy, T Mochizuki, K Kawamura… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Low molecular weight monocarboxylic acids (LMW monoacids) are most abundant volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere and often act as important contributors to the …

Measured and modeled trends of seven tropospheric pollutants in the high Arctic from 1999 to 2022

T Wizenberg, K Strong, DBA Jones… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term trends and seasonality of many tropospheric pollutants are not well
characterized in the high Arctic due to a dearth of trace‐gas measurements in this remote …

Enhanced levels of atmospheric low-molecular weight monocarboxylic acids in gas and particulates over Mt. Tai, North China, during field burning of agricultural …

T Mochizuki, K Kawamura, S Nakamura… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
To understand the source and atmospheric behaviour of low molecular weight
monocarboxylic acids (monoacids), gaseous (G) and particulate (P) organic acids were …