Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and select aldehydes in cloud and fog water: the role of the aqueous phase in impacting trace gas budgets

B Ervens, Y Wang, J Eagar, WR Leaitch… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud and fog droplets efficiently scavenge and process water-soluble compounds and,
thus, modify the chemical composition of the gas and particle phases. The concentrations of …

A review of observations of organic matter in fogs and clouds: Origin, processing and fate

P Herckes, KT Valsaraj, JL Collett Jr - Atmospheric research, 2013 - Elsevier
While fog and cloud composition has been studied for decades, most of the research was
limited to inorganic species and fog acidity. Recently the focus has shifted towards organic …

Chemical processing of water-soluble species and formation of secondary organic aerosol in fogs

H Kim, S Collier, X Ge, J Xu, Y Sun, W Jiang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
A field study on fog chemistry and aqueous-phase processing of aerosol particles was
conducted in Fresno, California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV) during wintertime. Fog droplets …

Partitioning of the organic aerosol component between fog droplets and interstitial air

MC Facchini, S Fuzzi, S Zappoli… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Limited information is available on the nature of organic compounds in the tropospheric
aerosol and their effect on aerosol hygroscopic properties and cloud condensation nuclei …

Fog chemistry in the Texas–Louisiana gulf coast corridor

S Raja, R Raghunathan, XY Yu, T Lee, J Chen… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - Elsevier
Fog samples were collected in two population centers of the US Gulf Coast (Houston, Texas
and Baton Rouge, Louisiana) using Caltech active strand cloud collectors. A total of 32 …

Secondary organic aerosol formation in cloud and fog droplets: a literature evaluation of plausibility

JD Blando, BJ Turpin - Atmospheric Environment, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the hypothesis that cloud and fog processes produce fine organic
particulate matter in the atmosphere. The evidence provided suggests that cloud and fog …

Comprehensive characterization of atmospheric organic matter in Fresno, California fog water

P Herckes, JA Leenheer, JL Collett - Environmental science & …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Fogwater collected during winter in Fresno (CA) was characterized by isolating several
distinct fractions and characterizing them by infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance …

Characterization of organic residues of size‐resolved fog droplets and their atmospheric implications

A Chakraborty, B Ervens, T Gupta… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Size‐resolved fog water samples were collected in two consecutive winters at Kanpur, a
heavily polluted urban area of India. Samples were analyzed by an aerosol mass …

Direct photolysis of carbonyl compounds dissolved in cloud and fog~ droplets

SA Epstein, E Tapavicza, F Furche… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Gas-phase photolysis is an important tropospheric sink for many carbonyl compounds;
however the significance of direct photolysis of these compounds dissolved in cloud and fog …

Modeling the processing of aerosol and trace gases in clouds and fogs

B Ervens - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Aerosol− cloud interactions account for the largest uncertainty in current estimates of
changes in radiative forcing according to the most recent IPCC report. 1 The term “aerosol …