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Research article
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04 Oct 2018
Research article |
| 04 Oct 2018
| 04 Oct 2018
Mixing state and particle hygroscopicity of organic-dominated aerosols over the Pearl River Delta region in China
Juan Hong
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 511443, China
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki
00014, Finland
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Mainz 55128, Germany
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and
Prevention, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan
University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
Hanbing Xu
Experimental Teaching Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
510275, China
Haobo Tan
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key
Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, CMA, Guangzhou 510640,
China
Changqing Yin
Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key
Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, CMA, Guangzhou 510640,
China
Liqing Hao
Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio
70211, Finland
Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key
Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, CMA, Guangzhou 510640,
China
Mingfu Cai
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for
Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, and Institute of Earth Climate
and Environment System, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275,
China
Xuejiao Deng
Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key
Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, CMA, Guangzhou 510640,
China
Nan Wang
Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key
Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, CMA, Guangzhou 510640,
China
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 511443, China
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Mainz 55128, Germany
Yafang Cheng
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 511443, China
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Mainz 55128, Germany
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and
Prevention, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan
University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
Tuukka Petäjä
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki
00014, Finland
Veli-Matti Kerminen
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki
00014, Finland
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In this manuscript, we provide the results of the hygroscopicity of a more anthropogenically influenced aerosol in a suburban site in China. Organic material in the current type of aerosols showed moderate hygroscopicity, and it appeared to be less sensitive towards the variation of its oxidation level, which suggests different characteristics of the oxidation products in secondary organic aerosols (SOA) under the suburban/urban atmosphere in China when compared to other background environments.
In this manuscript, we provide the results of the hygroscopicity of a more anthropogenically...
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