Articles | Volume 13, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11769-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11769-2013
Research article
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04 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 04 Dec 2013

Water uptake is independent of the inferred composition of secondary aerosols derived from multiple biogenic VOCs

M. R. Alfarra, N. Good, K. P. Wyche, J. F. Hamilton, P. S. Monks, A. C. Lewis, and G. McFiggans

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Alfarra, M. R.: Insights into atmospheric organic aerosols using an aerosol mass spectrometer, PhD Thesis, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK, 2004.
Alfarra, M. R., Coe, H., Allan, J. D., Bower, K. N., Boudries, H., Canagaratna, M. R., Jimenez, J. L., Jayne, J. T., Garforth, A., Li, S.-M., and Worsnop, D. R.: Characterization of urban and rural organic particulate in the Lower Fraser Valley using two Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometers, Atmos. Environ., 38, 5745–5758, 2004.
Alfarra, M. R., Paulsen, D., Gysel, M., Garforth, A. A., Dommen, J., Prév\^t, A. S. H., Worsnop, D. R., Baltensperger, U., and Coe, H.: A mass spectrometric study of secondary organic aerosols formed from the photooxidation of anthropogenic and biogenic precursors in a reaction chamber, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 5279–5293, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-5279-2006, 2006.
Alfarra, M. R., Hamilton, J. F., Wyche, K. P., Good, N., Ward, M. W., Carr, T., Barley, M. H., Monks, P. S., Jenkin, M. E., Lewis, A. C., and McFiggans, G. B.: The effect of photochemical ageing and initial precursor concentration on the composition and hygroscopic properties of β-caryophyllene secondary organic aerosol, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 6417–6436, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-6417-2012, 2012.
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