Ubiquitous atmospheric production of organic acids mediated by cloud droplets

B Franco, T Blumenstock, C Cho, L Clarisse… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
formic acid than all other known chemical sources combined. Our findings reconcile model
predictions and measurements of formic acid … a large, ubiquitous chemical source of HCOOH

Formic acid, a ubiquitous but overlooked component of the early earth atmosphere

E Mohammadi, L Petera, H Saeidfirozeh… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
atmospheric phenomena could provide with materials and energy sources for an abundant
production of formic acid in … demonstrated that in an atmospheric lightning-induced chemistry …

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
… The lifetime of atmospheric formic acid is reported as 3.2 days or even as long as 4.5 days in …

Emissions, chemistry or bidirectional surface transfer? Gas phase formic acid dynamics in the atmosphere

Z Gao, P Vasilakos, T Nah, M Takeuchi, H Chen… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
… of atmospheric formic acid (FACD), its sources, and its sinks in the southeastern US. The
Yorkville site is in a rural area, with few, non-biogenic sources of formic acid and formic acid

Aqueous photochemistry of 2-methyltetrol and erythritol as sources of formic acid and acetic acid in the atmosphere

JD Cope, KA Abellar, KH Bates, X Fu… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric formic acid (FA) and acetic acid (AA) mixing ratios are often underestimated in
atmospheric … the ubiquitous and abundant non-methane hydrocarbon isoprene (C 5 H 8 ). …

First continuous measurement of gaseous and particulate formic acid in a suburban area of East China: Seasonality and gas–particle partitioning

J Xu, J Chen, Y Shi, N Zhao, X Qin, G Yu… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… in atmospheric chemistry, the sources/sinks and gas–particle partitioning of formic acid is not
… Organic acids are ubiquitous in the troposphere and have been detected in both gas and …

Photochemical ageing of aerosols contributes significantly to the production of atmospheric formic acid

Y Jiang, M Xia, Z Wang, P Zheng… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
… , the HCOOH sources are not well understood. In a recent field study, we measured atmospheric
HCOOH … of HCOOH sources and model simulations of ambient HCOOH concentrations. …

Methanediol from cloud-processed formaldehyde is only a minor source of atmospheric formic acid

TL Nguyen, J Peeters, JF Müller… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… implies an average atmospheric lifetime of … atmosphere, due to its reprocessing by clouds.
The combined new findings of this work allow an estimate of global atmospheric formic acid

Can isoprene oxidation explain high concentrations of atmospheric formic and acetic acid over forests?

MF Link, TB Nguyen, K Bates, JF Müller… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… We find that (i) OH oxidation of MACR, IEPOX, and ISOPOOH are sources of formic acid, (ii) …
NO OH experiments for formic acid, we subtract a timeseries of formic acid taken from the …

Emerging investigator series: aqueous oxidation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol species as a source of atmospheric formic and acetic acids

KH Bates, DJ Jacob, JD Cope, X Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
… two molar equivalents of formic acid and one of acetic acid. We incorporate this chemistry
and that of 2-methyltetrol, another ubiquitous iSOA component, into the GEOS-Chem global …