Journal
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 118, Issue 16, Pages 9233-9257Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50530
Keywords
organic aerosol; Los Angeles; CalNex; positive matrix factorization; particulates; Pasadena
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Funding
- CARB [08-319, 11-305, 09-350]
- DOE (BER, ASR Program) [DE-SC0006035, DE-SC0006711, DE-FG02-11ER65293]
- CIRES Visiting Fellows Program
- US DOE SCGF Program (ORAU, ORISE) [DE-AC05-06OR23100]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H008136/1]
- National Science Foundation [ATM-0931492, ATM-0802237, AGS-1009408]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ncas10006, NE/H008136/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0006711] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- NERC [ncas10006, NE/H008136/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Organic aerosols (OA) in Pasadena are characterized using multiple measurements from the California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex) campaign. Five OA components are identified using positive matrix factorization including hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA) and two types of oxygenated OA (OOA). The Pasadena OA elemental composition when plotted as H:C versus O:C follows a line less steep than that observed for Riverside, CA. The OOA components from both locations follow a common line, however, indicating similar secondary organic aerosol (SOA) oxidation chemistry at the two sites such as fragmentation reactions leading to acid formation. In addition to the similar evolution of elemental composition, the dependence of SOA concentration on photochemical age displays quantitatively the same trends across several North American urban sites. First, the OA/CO values for Pasadena increase with photochemical age exhibiting a slope identical to or slightly higher than those for Mexico City and the northeastern United States. Second, the ratios of OOA to odd-oxygen (a photochemical oxidation marker) for Pasadena, Mexico City, and Riverside are similar, suggesting a proportional relationship between SOA and odd-oxygen formation rates. Weekly cycles of the OA components are examined as well. HOA exhibits lower concentrations on Sundays versus weekdays, and the decrease in HOA matches that predicted for primary vehicle emissions using fuel sales data, traffic counts, and vehicle emission ratios. OOA does not display a weekly cycleafter accounting for differences in photochemical aging which suggests the dominance of gasoline emissions in SOA formation under the assumption that most urban SOA precursors are from motor vehicles.
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