Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3687-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3687-2015
Research article
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02 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 02 Apr 2015

Submicron particle mass concentrations and sources in the Amazonian wet season (AMAZE-08)

Q. Chen, D. K. Farmer, L. V. Rizzo, T. Pauliquevis, M. Kuwata, T. G. Karl, A. Guenther, J. D. Allan, H. Coe, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl, J. L. Jimenez, P. Artaxo, and S. T. Martin

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Submicron particle mass concentration in the Amazon during the wet season of 2008 was dominated by organic material. The PMF analysis finds a comparable importance of gas-phase (gas-to-particle condensation) and particle-phase (reactive uptake of isoprene oxidation products, especially of epoxydiols to acidic haze, fog, or cloud droplets) production of secondary organic material during the study period, together accounting for >70% of the organic-particle mass concentration.
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