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Volume 16, issue 7

04 Apr 2016

Potential sensitivity of photosynthesis and isoprene emission to direct radiative effects of atmospheric aerosol pollution

Susanna Strada and Nadine Unger

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4213–4234, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4213-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4213-2016, 2016

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04 Apr 2016

A Lagrangian description on the troposphere-to-stratosphere transport changes associated with the stratospheric water drop around the year 2000

Fumio Hasebe and Taisuke Noguchi

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4235–4249, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4235-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4235-2016, 2016

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05 Apr 2016

Detecting moisture transport pathways to the subtropical North Atlantic free troposphere using paired H₂O-δD in situ measurements

Yenny González, Matthias Schneider, Christoph Dyroff, Sergio Rodríguez, Emanuel Christner, Omaira Elena García, Emilio Cuevas, Juan Jose Bustos, Ramon Ramos, Carmen Guirado-Fuentes, Sabine Barthlott, Andreas Wiegele, and Eliezer Sepúlveda

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4251–4269, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4251-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4251-2016, 2016

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05 Apr 2016

Can biomonitors effectively detect airborne benzo[a]pyrene? An evaluation approach using modelling

Nuno Ratola and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4271–4282, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4271-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4271-2016, 2016

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06 Apr 2016

Non-OH chemistry in oxidation flow reactors for the study of atmospheric chemistry systematically examined by modeling

Zhe Peng, Douglas A. Day, Amber M. Ortega, Brett B. Palm, Weiwei Hu, Harald Stark, Rui Li, Kostas Tsigaridis, William H. Brune, and Jose L. Jimenez

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4283–4305, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4283-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4283-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

Variability of water vapour in the Arctic stratosphere

Laura Thölix, Leif Backman, Rigel Kivi, and Alexey Yu. Karpechko

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4307–4321, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4307-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4307-2016, 2016

07 Apr 2016

Summertime ozone formation in Xi'an and surrounding areas, China

Tian Feng, Naifang Bei, Ru-Jin Huang, Junji Cao, Qiang Zhang, Weijian Zhou, Xuexi Tie, Suixin Liu, Ting Zhang, Xiaoli Su, Wenfang Lei, Luisa T. Molina, and Guohui Li

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4323–4342, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4323-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4323-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

The vertical distribution of volcanic SO₂ plumes measured by IASI

Elisa Carboni, Roy G. Grainger, Tamsin A. Mather, David M. Pyle, Gareth E. Thomas, Richard Siddans, Andrew J. A. Smith, Anu Dudhia, Mariliza E. Koukouli, and Dimitrios Balis

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4343–4367, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4343-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4343-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

Sensitivity to grid resolution in the ability of a chemical transport model to simulate observed oxidant chemistry under high-isoprene conditions

Karen Yu, Daniel J. Jacob, Jenny A. Fisher, Patrick S. Kim, Eloise A. Marais, Christopher C. Miller, Katherine R. Travis, Lei Zhu, Robert M. Yantosca, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Ron C. Cohen, Jack E. Dibb, Alan Fried, Tomas Mikoviny, Thomas B. Ryerson, Paul O. Wennberg, and Armin Wisthaler

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4369–4378, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4369-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4369-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

Developing and bounding ice particle mass- and area-dimension expressions for use in atmospheric models and remote sensing

Ehsan Erfani and David L. Mitchell

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4379–4400, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4379-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4379-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

Technical Note: Development of chemoinformatic tools to enumerate functional groups in molecules for organic aerosol characterization

Giulia Ruggeri and Satoshi Takahama

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4401–4422, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4401-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4401-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

Observation of viscosity transition in α-pinene secondary organic aerosol

Emma Järvinen, Karoliina Ignatius, Leonid Nichman, Thomas B. Kristensen, Claudia Fuchs, Christopher R. Hoyle, Niko Höppel, Joel C. Corbin, Jill Craven, Jonathan Duplissy, Sebastian Ehrhart, Imad El Haddad, Carla Frege, Hamish Gordon, Tuija Jokinen, Peter Kallinger, Jasper Kirkby, Alexei Kiselev, Karl-Heinz Naumann, Tuukka Petäjä, Tamara Pinterich, Andre S. H. Prevot, Harald Saathoff, Thea Schiebel, Kamalika Sengupta, Mario Simon, Jay G. Slowik, Jasmin Tröstl, Annele Virtanen, Paul Vochezer, Steffen Vogt, Andrea C. Wagner, Robert Wagner, Christina Williamson, Paul M. Winkler, Chao Yan, Urs Baltensperger, Neil M. Donahue, Rick C. Flagan, Martin Gallagher, Armin Hansel, Markku Kulmala, Frank Stratmann, Douglas R. Worsnop, Ottmar Möhler, Thomas Leisner, and Martin Schnaiter

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4423–4438, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4423-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4423-2016, 2016

11 Apr 2016

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Kinetic isotope effects of ¹²CH₃D  + OH and ¹³CH₃D  + OH from 278 to 313 K

L. M. T. Joelsson, J. A. Schmidt, E. J. K. Nilsson, T. Blunier, D. W. T. Griffith, S. Ono, and M. S. Johnson

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4439–4449, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4439-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4439-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

Global observations and modeling of atmosphere–surface exchange of elemental mercury: a critical review

Wei Zhu, Che-Jen Lin, Xun Wang, Jonas Sommar, Xuewu Fu, and Xinbin Feng

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4451–4480, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4451-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4451-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

The global impact of the transport sectors on atmospheric aerosol in 2030 – Part 2: Aviation

Mattia Righi, Johannes Hendricks, and Robert Sausen

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4481–4495, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4481-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4481-2016, 2016

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12 Apr 2016

Characteristics of monsoon inversions over the Arabian Sea observed by satellite sounder and reanalysis data sets

Sanjeev Dwivedi, M. S. Narayanan, M. Venkat Ratnam, and D. Narayana Rao

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4497–4509, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4497-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4497-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Molecular transformations of phenolic SOA during photochemical aging in the aqueous phase: competition among oligomerization, functionalization, and fragmentation

Lu Yu, Jeremy Smith, Alexander Laskin, Katheryn M. George, Cort Anastasio, Julia Laskin, Ann M. Dillner, and Qi Zhang

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4511–4527, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4511-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4511-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Mercury dynamics and mass balance in a subtropical forest, southwestern China

Ming Ma, Dingyong Wang, Hongxia Du, Tao Sun, Zheng Zhao, Yongmin Wang, and Shiqiang Wei

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4529–4537, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4529-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4529-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Studying the vertical aerosol extinction coefficient by comparing in situ airborne data and elastic backscatter lidar

Bernadette Rosati, Erik Herrmann, Silvia Bucci, Federico Fierli, Francesco Cairo, Martin Gysel, Ralf Tillmann, Johannes Größ, Gian Paolo Gobbi, Luca Di Liberto, Guido Di Donfrancesco, Alfred Wiedensohler, Ernest Weingartner, Annele Virtanen, Thomas F. Mentel, and Urs Baltensperger

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4539–4554, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4539-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4539-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Photochemical age of air pollutants, ozone, and secondary organic aerosol in transboundary air observed on Fukue Island, Nagasaki, Japan

Satoshi Irei, Akinori Takami, Yasuhiro Sadanaga, Susumu Nozoe, Seiichiro Yonemura, Hiroshi Bandow, and Yoko Yokouchi

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4555–4568, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4555-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4555-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Vortex-wide chlorine activation by a mesoscale PSC event in the Arctic winter of 2009/10

Tobias Wegner, Michael C. Pitts, Lamont R. Poole, Ines Tritscher, Jens-Uwe Grooß, and Hideaki Nakajima

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4569–4577, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4569-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4569-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Particle water and pH in the eastern Mediterranean: source variability and implications for nutrient availability

Aikaterini Bougiatioti, Panayiota Nikolaou, Iasonas Stavroulas, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Rodney Weber, Athanasios Nenes, Maria Kanakidou, and Nikolaos Mihalopoulos

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4579–4591, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4579-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4579-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Exploring atmospheric blocking with GPS radio occultation observations

Lukas Brunner, Andrea K. Steiner, Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher, and Martin W. Jury

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4593–4604, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4593-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4593-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

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Aura OMI observations of regional SO₂ and NO₂ pollution changes from 2005 to 2015

Nickolay A. Krotkov, Chris A. McLinden, Can Li, Lok N. Lamsal, Edward A. Celarier, Sergey V. Marchenko, William H. Swartz, Eric J. Bucsela, Joanna Joiner, Bryan N. Duncan, K. Folkert Boersma, J. Pepijn Veefkind, Pieternel F. Levelt, Vitali E. Fioletov, Russell R. Dickerson, Hao He, Zifeng Lu, and David G. Streets

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4605–4629, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4605-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4605-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Hotspot of glyoxal over the Pearl River delta seen from the OMI satellite instrument: implications for emissions of aromatic hydrocarbons

Christopher Chan Miller, Daniel J. Jacob, Gonzalo González Abad, and Kelly Chance

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4631–4639, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4631-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4631-2016, 2016

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14 Apr 2016

Using beryllium-7 to assess cross-tropopause transport in global models

Hongyu Liu, David B. Considine, Larry W. Horowitz, James H. Crawford, Jose M. Rodriguez, Susan E. Strahan, Megan R. Damon, Stephen D. Steenrod, Xiaojing Xu, Jules Kouatchou, Claire Carouge, and Robert M. Yantosca

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4641–4659, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4641-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4641-2016, 2016

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14 Apr 2016

Effects of long-range aerosol transport on the microphysical properties of low-level liquid clouds in the Arctic

Quentin Coopman, Timothy J. Garrett, Jérôme Riedi, Sabine Eckhardt, and Andreas Stohl

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4661–4674, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4661-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4661-2016, 2016

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14 Apr 2016

Vertical wind retrieved by airborne lidar and analysis of island induced gravity waves in combination with numerical models and in situ particle measurements

Fernando Chouza, Oliver Reitebuch, Michael Jähn, Stephan Rahm, and Bernadett Weinzierl

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4675–4692, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4675-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4675-2016, 2016

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14 Apr 2016

Quantification of black carbon mixing state from traffic: implications for aerosol optical properties

Megan D. Willis, Robert M. Healy, Nicole Riemer, Matthew West, Jon M. Wang, Cheol-Heon Jeong, John C. Wenger, Greg J. Evans, Jonathan P. D. Abbatt, and Alex K. Y. Lee

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4693–4706, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4693-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4693-2016, 2016

15 Apr 2016

Interferences in photolytic NO₂ measurements: explanation for an apparent missing oxidant?

Chris Reed, Mathew J. Evans, Piero Di Carlo, James D. Lee, and Lucy J. Carpenter

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4707–4724, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4707-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4707-2016, 2016

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15 Apr 2016

Long-range transport and mixing of aerosol sources during the 2013 North American biomass burning episode: analysis of multiple lidar observations in the western Mediterranean basin

Gerard Ancellet, Jacques Pelon, Julien Totems, Patrick Chazette, Ariane Bazureau, Michaël Sicard, Tatiana Di Iorio, Francois Dulac, and Marc Mallet

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4725–4742, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4725-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4725-2016, 2016

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15 Apr 2016

Microwave signatures of ice hydrometeors from ground-based observations above Summit, Greenland

Claire Pettersen, Ralf Bennartz, Mark S. Kulie, Aronne J. Merrelli, Matthew D. Shupe, and David D. Turner

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4743–4756, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4743-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4743-2016, 2016

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