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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 1583-1591Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072424
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- National Science Foundation [AGS-0846255, AGS-1446286]
- US Department of Energy's Atmospheric System Research Program (Office of Science, OBER) [DE-AC02098CH10886]
- Max Planck Society
- EU [603445]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1446286] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Chemical aging of organic aerosol (OA) through multiphase oxidation reactions can alter their cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity and hygroscopicity. However, the oxidation kinetics and OA reactivity depend strongly on the particle phase state, potentially influencing the hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic conversion rate of carbonaceous aerosol. Here, amorphous Suwannee River fulvic acid (SRFA) aerosol particles, a surrogate humic-like substance (HULIS) that contributes substantially to global OA mass, are oxidized by OH radicals at different temperatures and phase states. When oxidized at low temperature in a glassy solid state, the hygroscopicity of SRFA particles increased by almost a factor of two, whereas oxidation of liquid-like SRFA particles at higher temperatures did not affect CCN activity. Low-temperature oxidation appears to promote the formation of highly-oxygenated particle-bound fragmentation products with lower molar mass and greater CCN activity, underscoring the importance of chemical aging in the free troposphere and its influence on the CCN activity of OA.
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