Mixing times of organic molecules within secondary organic aerosol particles: a global planetary boundary layer perspective

When simulating the formation and life cycle of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) with chemical transport models, it is often assumed that organic molecules are well mixed within SOA particles on the timescale of 1 h. While this assumption has been debated vigorously in the literature, the issue remai...

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Veröffentlicht in:Atmospheric chemistry and physics 2017-11, Vol.17 (21), p.13037-13048
Hauptverfasser: Maclean, Adrian M, Butenhoff, Christopher L, Grayson, James W, Barsanti, Kelley, Jimenez, Jose L, Bertram, Allan K
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Zusammenfassung:When simulating the formation and life cycle of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) with chemical transport models, it is often assumed that organic molecules are well mixed within SOA particles on the timescale of 1 h. While this assumption has been debated vigorously in the literature, the issue remains unresolved in part due to a lack of information on the mixing times within SOA particles as a function of both temperature and relative humidity. Using laboratory data, meteorological fields, and a chemical transport model, we estimated how often mixing times are  
ISSN:1680-7324
1680-7316
1680-7324
DOI:10.5194/acp-17-13037-2017