Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2013-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2013-2016
Research article
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23 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2016

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We estimate the volatility distribution for the organic aerosol (OA) components during summer and winter field campaigns in Paris, France as part of the collaborative project MEGAPOLI. The OA factors (hydrocarbon like OA, cooking OA, marine OA, oxygenated OA) had a broad spectrum of volatilities with no direct link between the average volatility and average oxygen to carbon of the OA components.
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