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Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically‐influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes
Author(s) -
Zhang Q.,
Jimenez J. L.,
Canagaratna M. R.,
Allan J. D.,
Coe H.,
Ulbrich I.,
Alfarra M. R.,
Takami A.,
Middlebrook A. M.,
Sun Y. L.,
Dzepina K.,
Dunlea E.,
Docherty K.,
DeCarlo P. F.,
Salcedo D.,
Onasch T.,
Jayne J. T.,
Miyoshi T.,
Shimono A.,
Hatakeyama S.,
Takegawa N.,
Kondo Y.,
Schneider J.,
Drewnick F.,
Borrmann S.,
Weimer S.,
Demerjian K.,
Williams P.,
Bower K.,
Bahreini R.,
Cottrell L.,
Griffin R. J.,
Rautiainen J.,
Sun J. Y.,
Zhang Y. M.,
Worsnop D. R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2007gl029979
Subject(s) - aerosol , environmental science , dominance (genetics) , atmospheric sciences , middle latitudes , northern hemisphere , combustion , environmental chemistry , gasoline , physical geography , geology , chemistry , meteorology , geography , gene , biochemistry , organic chemistry
Organic aerosol (OA) data acquired by the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) in 37 field campaigns were deconvolved into hydrocarbon‐like OA (HOA) and several types of oxygenated OA (OOA) components. HOA has been linked to primary combustion emissions (mainly from fossil fuel) and other primary sources such as meat cooking. OOA is ubiquitous in various atmospheric environments, on average accounting for 64%, 83% and 95% of the total OA in urban, urban downwind, and rural/remote sites, respectively. A case study analysis of a rural site shows that the OOA concentration is much greater than the advected HOA, indicating that HOA oxidation is not an important source of OOA, and that OOA increases are mainly due to SOA. Most global models lack an explicit representation of SOA which may lead to significant biases in the magnitude, spatial and temporal distributions of OA, and in aerosol hygroscopic properties.