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 …

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 …

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 …

Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review

M Kanakidou, JH Seinfeld, SN Pandis… - Atmospheric …, 2005 - acp.copernicus.org
The present paper reviews existing knowledge with regard to Organic Aerosol (OA) of
importance for global climate modelling and defines critical gaps needed to reduce the …

Measuring and simulating particulate organics in the atmosphere: problems and prospects

BJ Turpin, P Saxena, E Andrews - Atmospheric Environment, 2000 - Elsevier
Although organics constitute approximately 10–70% of the total dry fine particle mass in the
atmosphere, their concentrations and formation mechanisms are less well understood than …

Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

Arctic haze: current trends and knowledge gaps

PK Quinn, G Shaw, E Andrews, EG Dutton… - Tellus B: Chemical …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Trend analyses were performed on several indicators of Arctic haze using data from sites
located in the North American, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian Arctic for the spring months …

Organic atmospheric particulate material

JH Seinfeld, JF Pankow - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Carbonaceous compounds comprise a substantial fraction of atmospheric
particulate matter (PM). Particulate organic material can be emitted directly into the …

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 …

Sources of carbonaceous aerosols and deposited black carbon in the Arctic in winter-spring: implications for radiative forcing

Q Wang, DJ Jacob, JA Fisher, J Mao… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem CTM) to interpret observations of
black carbon (BC) and organic aerosol (OA) from the NASA ARCTAS aircraft campaign over …