Dilution and photooxidation driven processes explain the evolution of organic aerosol in wildfire plumes

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• Journal Title:
  Environmental Science: Atmospheres
• Personal Author:
  Akherati, Ali ; He, Yicong ; Garofalo, Lauren A. ; Hodshire, Anna L. ; Farmer, Delphine K. ; Kreidenweis, Sonia M. ; Permar, Wade ; Hu, Lu ; Fischer, Emily V. ; Jen, Coty N. ; Goldstein, Allen H. ; Levin, Ezra J. T. ; DeMott, Paul J. ; Campos, Teresa L. ; Flocke, Frank ; Reeves, John M. ; Toohey, Darin W. ; Pierce, Jeffrey R. ; Jathar, Shantanu H.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  Wildfires are a source of primary aerosols and precursors for secondary aerosols to the atmosphere. In this work, we discover that the evolution of these aerosols depends strongly on the coupled effects of dilution, photooxidation, and partitioning.
• Keywords:
  Analytical Chemistry Chemistry (miscellaneous) Environmental Chemistry Pollution
• Source:
  Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2(5), 1000-1022
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ea00082a
• ISSN:
  2634-3606
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA17OAR4310001 ; Grant no. NA17OAR4310003 ; Grant no. NA17OAR4310010
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY-NC
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9d13c4e89a7dd9e0d8a478cf77c44e13eb80379f210bdf476bac47060722834f
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/59259/noaa_59259_DS1.pdf
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