Enhanced Volatile Organic Compounds emissions and organic aerosol mass increase the oligomer content of atmospheric aerosols
Abstract
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for a dominant fraction of the submicron atmospheric particle mass, but knowledge of the formation, composition and climate effects of SOA is incomplete and limits our understanding of overall aerosol effects in the atmosphere. Organic oligomers were discovered as dominant components in SOA over a decade ago in laboratory experiments and have since been proposed to play a dominant role in many aerosol processes. However, it remains unclear whether oligomers are relevant under ambient atmospheric conditions because they are often not clearly observed in field samples. Here we resolve this long-standing discrepancy by showing that elevated SOA mass is one of the key drivers of oligomer formation in the ambient atmosphere and laboratory experiments. We show for the first time that a specific organic compound class in aerosols, oligomers, is strongly correlated with cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activities of SOA particles. These findings might have important implications for future climate scenarios where increased temperatures cause higher biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, which in turn lead to higher SOA mass formation and significant changes in SOA composition. Such processes would need to be considered in climate models for a realistic representation of future aerosol-climate-biosphere feedbacks.
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- Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Univ. College Cork (Ireland)
- Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
- Univ. College Cork (Ireland)
- Univ. of Helsinki (Finland); Hyytiala Forestry Field Station (Finland)
- Univ. College Cork (Ireland); Leibniz Inst. for Tropospheric Research (ITR), Leipzig (Germany)
- Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Cranfield Univ. (United Kingdom)
- Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany)
- Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
- Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Inst. Pierre Simon Laplace, Creteil (France)
- Ghent Univ. (Belgium); Univ. of Antwerp (Belgium)
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- Research Org.:
- ARM Climate Research Facility, Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1378562
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Kourtchev, Ivan, Giorio, Chiara, Manninen, Antti, Wilson, Eoin, Mahon, Brendan, Aalto, Juho, Kajos, Maija, Venables, Dean, Ruuskanen, Taina, Levula, Janne, Loponen, Matti, Connors, Sarah, Harris, Neil, Zhao, Defeng, Kiendler-Scharr, Astrid, Mentel, Thomas, Rudich, Yinon, Hallquist, Mattias, Doussin, Jean-Francois, Maenhaut, Willy, Bäck, Jaana, Petäjä, Tuukka, Wenger, John, Kulmala, Markku, and Kalberer, Markus. Enhanced Volatile Organic Compounds emissions and organic aerosol mass increase the oligomer content of atmospheric aerosols. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep35038.
Kourtchev, Ivan, Giorio, Chiara, Manninen, Antti, Wilson, Eoin, Mahon, Brendan, Aalto, Juho, Kajos, Maija, Venables, Dean, Ruuskanen, Taina, Levula, Janne, Loponen, Matti, Connors, Sarah, Harris, Neil, Zhao, Defeng, Kiendler-Scharr, Astrid, Mentel, Thomas, Rudich, Yinon, Hallquist, Mattias, Doussin, Jean-Francois, Maenhaut, Willy, Bäck, Jaana, Petäjä, Tuukka, Wenger, John, Kulmala, Markku, & Kalberer, Markus. Enhanced Volatile Organic Compounds emissions and organic aerosol mass increase the oligomer content of atmospheric aerosols. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35038
Kourtchev, Ivan, Giorio, Chiara, Manninen, Antti, Wilson, Eoin, Mahon, Brendan, Aalto, Juho, Kajos, Maija, Venables, Dean, Ruuskanen, Taina, Levula, Janne, Loponen, Matti, Connors, Sarah, Harris, Neil, Zhao, Defeng, Kiendler-Scharr, Astrid, Mentel, Thomas, Rudich, Yinon, Hallquist, Mattias, Doussin, Jean-Francois, Maenhaut, Willy, Bäck, Jaana, Petäjä, Tuukka, Wenger, John, Kulmala, Markku, and Kalberer, Markus. Thu .
"Enhanced Volatile Organic Compounds emissions and organic aerosol mass increase the oligomer content of atmospheric aerosols". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35038. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1378562.
@article{osti_1378562,
title = {Enhanced Volatile Organic Compounds emissions and organic aerosol mass increase the oligomer content of atmospheric aerosols},
author = {Kourtchev, Ivan and Giorio, Chiara and Manninen, Antti and Wilson, Eoin and Mahon, Brendan and Aalto, Juho and Kajos, Maija and Venables, Dean and Ruuskanen, Taina and Levula, Janne and Loponen, Matti and Connors, Sarah and Harris, Neil and Zhao, Defeng and Kiendler-Scharr, Astrid and Mentel, Thomas and Rudich, Yinon and Hallquist, Mattias and Doussin, Jean-Francois and Maenhaut, Willy and Bäck, Jaana and Petäjä, Tuukka and Wenger, John and Kulmala, Markku and Kalberer, Markus},
abstractNote = {Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for a dominant fraction of the submicron atmospheric particle mass, but knowledge of the formation, composition and climate effects of SOA is incomplete and limits our understanding of overall aerosol effects in the atmosphere. Organic oligomers were discovered as dominant components in SOA over a decade ago in laboratory experiments and have since been proposed to play a dominant role in many aerosol processes. However, it remains unclear whether oligomers are relevant under ambient atmospheric conditions because they are often not clearly observed in field samples. Here we resolve this long-standing discrepancy by showing that elevated SOA mass is one of the key drivers of oligomer formation in the ambient atmosphere and laboratory experiments. We show for the first time that a specific organic compound class in aerosols, oligomers, is strongly correlated with cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activities of SOA particles. These findings might have important implications for future climate scenarios where increased temperatures cause higher biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, which in turn lead to higher SOA mass formation and significant changes in SOA composition. Such processes would need to be considered in climate models for a realistic representation of future aerosol-climate-biosphere feedbacks.},
doi = {10.1038/srep35038},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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