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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 18, Pages 7036-7045Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es050174m
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We report secondary organic aerosol (SOA) yields from the ozonolysis of alpha-pinene under both dark and UV-illuminated conditions. Exposure to UV light reduces SOA yield by 20-40%, with a maximum reduction in yield coinciding with a minimum in the amount of terpene consumed (15-30 ppb). The data are consistent with a constant absolute reduction in the yield of similar to 0.03. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry analysis of filter samples indicates that the major products found in alpha-pinene SOA include organic acids (e.g., pinic acid), keto acids (e.g., pinonic acid), and hydroxy keto acids (e.g., 10-hydroxypinonic acid), Analysis of filter-based results suggests that yield reduction is a result of the formation of a more volatile product distribution when experiments are conducted in the presence of UV light. These results imply that previous dark bag experiments may overestimate SOA generation from monoterpenes and also that SOA generation in the atmosphere may depend significantly on actinic flux.
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