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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8939-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8939-2017
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25 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2017

Speciation of organic aerosols in the Saharan Air Layer and in the free troposphere westerlies

M. Isabel García, Barend L. van Drooge, Sergio Rodríguez, and Andrés Alastuey

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Speciation of organic aerosol was performed in the westerlies and in the Saharan Air Layer, where biogenic secondary organic aerosol (oxidation of isoprene and alpha-pinene) and primary combustion compounds (hopanes and PAHs) were observed. In the Saharan Air Layer, species (saccharides) linked to soil emission – plant tissues and microorganisms – in the inner Sahara were also identified, whereas in the westerlies biomass burning compounds (e.g. levoglucosan) from North America also occurred.
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