Articles | Volume 18, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15451-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15451-2018
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26 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 26 Oct 2018

Primary emissions of glyoxal and methylglyoxal from laboratory measurements of open biomass burning

Kyle J. Zarzana, Vanessa Selimovic, Abigail R. Koss, Kanako Sekimoto, Matthew M. Coggon, Bin Yuan, William P. Dubé, Robert J. Yokelson, Carsten Warneke, Joost A. de Gouw, James M. Roberts, and Steven S. Brown
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Emissions of glyoxal and methylglyoxal from fuels common to the western United States were measured using cavity-enhanced spectroscopy, which provides a more selective measurement of those compounds than was previously available. Primary emissions of glyoxal were lower than previously reported and showed variability between the different fuel groups. However, emissions of glyoxal relative to formaldehyde were constant across almost all the fuel groups at 6 %–7 %.
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