Opinion: How will advances in aerosol science inform our understanding of the health impacts of outdoor particulate pollution?

I El Haddad, D Vienneau… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Air pollution, characterized by high levels of particulate matter (PM), poses the greatest
environmental threat to human health, causing an estimated 7 million deaths annually and …

Rapid night-time nanoparticle growth in Delhi driven by biomass-burning emissions

S Mishra, SN Tripathi, VP Kanawade, SL Haslett… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural and anthropogenic biomass burning are among the major sources of particulate
pollution worldwide that affects air quality, climate and human health. Delhi, one of the …

Time-Resolved Molecular Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formed from OH and NO3 Radical Initiated Oxidation of a Mixture of Aromatic Precursors

V Kumar, JG Slowik, U Baltensperger… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aromatic hydrocarbons (ArHCs) and oxygenated aromatic hydrocarbons (ArHC–OHs) are
emitted from a variety of anthropogenic activities and are important precursors of secondary …

Nighttime NO emissions strongly suppress chlorine and nitrate radical formation during the winter in Delhi

SL Haslett, DM Bell, V Kumar, JG Slowik… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric pollution in urban regions is highly influenced by oxidants due to their
important role in the formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and smog. These include …

Organic aerosol sources in the Milan metropolitan area–Receptor modelling based on field observations and air quality modelling

KR Daellenbach, M Manousakas, J Jiang, T Cui… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Milan metropolitan area in Northern Italy experiences historically severe particulate
matter pollution episodes characterized by high organic aerosol (OA) concentrations …

Biomass-burning sources control ambient particulate matter, but traffic and industrial sources control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and secondary …

A Awasthi, B Sinha, H Hakkim, S Mishra… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM) are major constituents of
smog. Delhi experiences severe smog during the post-monsoon season, but a quantitative …

Optical source apportionment of aqueous brown carbon (BrC) on a daytime and nighttime basis in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and insights from 13C and …

S Dey, P Ghosh, P Rawat, N Choudhary, A Rai… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study reports day-night and seasonal variations of aqueous brown carbon (BrC aq) and
constituent humic-like substances (HULIS)(neutral and acidic HULIS: HULIS-n and HULIS …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of primary and secondary organic aerosol sources by combined factor analysis of extractive electrospray ionisation and aerosol mass …

Y Tong, L Qi, G Stefenelli, DS Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
Source apportionment studies have struggled to quantitatively link secondary organic
aerosols (SOAs) to their precursor sources due largely to instrument limitations. For …

Bulk and molecular-level composition of primary organic aerosol from wood, straw, cow dung, and plastic burning

J Zhang, K Li, T Wang, E Gammelsæter… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
During the past decades, the source apportionment of organic aerosol (OA) in ambient air
has been improving substantially. The database of source retrieval model-resolved mass …

Molecular tracers, mass spectral tracers and oxidation of organic aerosols emitted from cooking and fossil fuel burning sources

C Liang, S Wang, R Hu, G Huang, J Xie, B Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) composes a substantial fraction of atmospheric particles,
yet the formation and aging mechanism of SOA remains unclear. Here we investigate the …