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Title: Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements

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Abstract A large data set including surface, aircraft, and laboratory observations of the atomic oxygen‐to‐carbon (O:C) and hydrogen‐to‐carbon (H:C) ratios of organic aerosol (OA) is synthesized and corrected using a recently reported method. The whole data set indicates a wide range of OA oxidation and a trajectory in the Van Krevelen diagram, characterized by a slope of −0.6, with variation across campaigns. We show that laboratory OA including both source and aged types explains some of the key differences in OA observed across different environments. However, the laboratory data typically fall below the mean line defined by ambient observations, and little laboratory data extend to the highest O:C ratios commonly observed in remote conditions. OA having both high O:C and high H:C are required to bridge the gaps. Aqueous‐phase oxidation may produce such OA, but experiments under realistic ambient conditions are needed to constrain the relative importance of this pathway.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [3];  [3];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [10];  [10];  [11]
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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA, Now at State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Peking University Beijing China
  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA
  3. CIRES and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Colorado Boulder Boulder Colorado USA
  4. Aerodyne Research, Inc. Billerica Massachusetts USA
  5. Department of Environmental Toxicology University of California Davis California USA
  6. Key Laboratory for Urban Habitat Environmental Science and Technology, School of Environment and Energy Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School Shenzhen China
  7. Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Leipzig Germany
  8. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences NHarvard University Cambridge Massachusetts USA, Now at Earth Observatory of Singapore Nanyang Technological University Singapore
  9. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences NHarvard University Cambridge Massachusetts USA
  10. Department of Chemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
  11. Air Quality Research Division Environment Canada Toronto Ontario Canada
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Geophysical Research Letters
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Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Volume: 42 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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United States
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Chen, Qi, Heald, Colette L., Jimenez, Jose L., Canagaratna, Manjula R., Zhang, Qi, He, Ling‐Yan, Huang, Xiao‐Feng, Campuzano‐Jost, Pedro, Palm, Brett B., Poulain, Laurent, Kuwata, Mikinori, Martin, Scot T., Abbatt, Jonathan P. D., Lee, Alex K. Y., and Liggio, John. Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1002/2015GL063693.
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Chen, Qi, Heald, Colette L., Jimenez, Jose L., Canagaratna, Manjula R., Zhang, Qi, He, Ling‐Yan, Huang, Xiao‐Feng, Campuzano‐Jost, Pedro, Palm, Brett B., Poulain, Laurent, Kuwata, Mikinori, Martin, Scot T., Abbatt, Jonathan P. D., Lee, Alex K. Y., & Liggio, John. Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063693
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Chen, Qi, Heald, Colette L., Jimenez, Jose L., Canagaratna, Manjula R., Zhang, Qi, He, Ling‐Yan, Huang, Xiao‐Feng, Campuzano‐Jost, Pedro, Palm, Brett B., Poulain, Laurent, Kuwata, Mikinori, Martin, Scot T., Abbatt, Jonathan P. D., Lee, Alex K. Y., and Liggio, John. Fri . "Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063693.
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@article{osti_1402127,
title = {Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurements},
author = {Chen, Qi and Heald, Colette L. and Jimenez, Jose L. and Canagaratna, Manjula R. and Zhang, Qi and He, Ling‐Yan and Huang, Xiao‐Feng and Campuzano‐Jost, Pedro and Palm, Brett B. and Poulain, Laurent and Kuwata, Mikinori and Martin, Scot T. and Abbatt, Jonathan P. D. and Lee, Alex K. Y. and Liggio, John},
abstractNote = {Abstract A large data set including surface, aircraft, and laboratory observations of the atomic oxygen‐to‐carbon (O:C) and hydrogen‐to‐carbon (H:C) ratios of organic aerosol (OA) is synthesized and corrected using a recently reported method. The whole data set indicates a wide range of OA oxidation and a trajectory in the Van Krevelen diagram, characterized by a slope of −0.6, with variation across campaigns. We show that laboratory OA including both source and aged types explains some of the key differences in OA observed across different environments. However, the laboratory data typically fall below the mean line defined by ambient observations, and little laboratory data extend to the highest O:C ratios commonly observed in remote conditions. OA having both high O:C and high H:C are required to bridge the gaps. Aqueous‐phase oxidation may produce such OA, but experiments under realistic ambient conditions are needed to constrain the relative importance of this pathway.},
doi = {10.1002/2015GL063693},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 42,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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