Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

M Shrivastava, CD Cappa, J Fan… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol
concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial conditions and …

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 …

Heterogeneous photochemistry in the atmosphere

C George, M Ammann, B D'Anna… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. BACKGROUND 1.1. Why Condensed Matter Matters: Types and Significance of
Condensed Matter and Surfaces Encountered in the Atmospheric Environment The …

Tropospheric aqueous-phase chemistry: kinetics, mechanisms, and its coupling to a changing gas phase

H Herrmann, T Schaefer, A Tilgner, SA Styler… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
This Review aims to summarize the current understanding of bulk tropospheric aqueous-
phase chemistry. Because a complete review of all developments in this area would be …

The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues

M Hallquist, JC Wenger, U Baltensperger… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for a significant fraction of ambient tropospheric
aerosol and a detailed knowledge of the formation, properties and transformation of SOA is …

Carbon oxidation state as a metric for describing the chemistry of atmospheric organic aerosol

JH Kroll, NM Donahue, JL Jimenez, SH Kessler… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
A detailed understanding of the sources, transformations and fates of organic species in the
environment is crucial because of the central roles that they play in human health …

A review of dicarboxylic acids and related compounds in atmospheric aerosols: Molecular distributions, sources and transformation

K Kawamura, S Bikkina - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
This review aims to update our understanding on molecular distributions of water-soluble
dicarboxylic acids and related compounds in atmospheric aerosols with a focus on their …

Primary and secondary aerosols in Beijing in winter: sources, variations and processes

Y Sun, W Du, P Fu, Q Wang, J Li, X Ge… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Winter has the worst air pollution of the year in the megacity of Beijing. Despite extensive
winter studies in recent years, our knowledge of the sources, formation mechanisms and …

Glass transition and phase state of organic compounds: dependency on molecular properties and implications for secondary organic aerosols in the atmosphere

T Koop, J Bookhold, M Shiraiwa… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, it has been proposed that organic aerosol particles in the atmosphere can exist in
an amorphous semi-solid or solid (ie glassy) state. In this perspective, we analyse and …

Secondary organic aerosol formation in cloud droplets and aqueous particles (aqSOA): a review of laboratory, field and model studies

B Ervens, BJ Turpin, RJ Weber - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Progress has been made over the past decade in predicting secondary organic aerosol
(SOA) mass in the atmosphere using vapor pressure-driven partitioning, which implies that …