Secondary organic aerosol formation in biomass-burning plumes: theoretical analysis of lab studies and ambient plumes

Bian, Qijing; Jathar, Shantanu H.; Kodros, John K.; Barsanti, Kelley C.; Hatch, Lindsay E.; May, Andrew A.; Kreidenweis, Sonia M.; Pierce, Jeffrey R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5459-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 8

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 5459–5475, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5459-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 5459–5475, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5459-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 8

Research article 28 Apr 2017

Research article | 28 Apr 2017

Secondary organic aerosol formation in biomass-burning plumes: theoretical analysis of lab studies and ambient plumes

Qijing Bian et al.

Download

Final revised paper (published on 28 Apr 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 01 Nov 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Referee report', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Rev. 1', Jeffrey Pierce, 21 Jan 2017
RC2: 'Review of Bian et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Rev. 2', Jeffrey Pierce, 21 Jan 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jeffrey Pierce on behalf of the Authors (21 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (30 Mar 2017) by David Topping

Short summary

In this paper, we perform simulations of the evolution of biomass-burning organic aerosol in laboratory smog-chamber experiments and ambient plumes. We find that in smog-chamber experiments, vapor wall losses lead to a large reduction in the apparent secondary organic aerosol formation. In ambient plumes, fire size and meteorology regulate the plume dilution rate, primary organic aerosol evaporation rate, and secondary organic aerosol formation rate.