Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality

Nault, Benjamin A.; Jo, Duseong S.; McDonald, Brian C.; Campuzano-Jost, Pedro; Day, Douglas A.; Hu, Weiwei; Schroder, Jason C.; Allan, James; Blake, Donald R.; Canagaratna, Manjula R.; Coe, Hugh; Coggon, Matthew M.; DeCarlo, Peter F.; Diskin, Glenn S.; Dunmore, Rachel; Flocke, Frank; Fried, Alan; Gilman, Jessica B.; Gkatzelis, Georgios; Hamilton, Jacqui F.; Hanisco, Thomas F.; Hayes, Patrick L.; Henze, Daven K.; Hodzic, Alma; Hopkins, James; Hu, Min; Huey, L. Greggory; Jobson, B. Thomas; Kuster, William C.; Lewis, Alastair; Li, Meng; Liao, Jin; Nawaz, M. Omar; Pollack, Ilana B.; Peischl, Jeffrey; Rappenglück, Bernhard; Reeves, Claire E.; Richter, Dirk; Roberts, James M.; Ryerson, Thomas B.; Shao, Min; Sommers, Jacob M.; Walega, James; Warneke, Carsten; Weibring, Petter; Wolfe, Glenn M.; Young, Dominique E.; Yuan, Bin; Zhang, Qiang; de Gouw, Joost A.; Jimenez, Jose L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11201-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 14

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11201–11224, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11201-2021

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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11201–11224, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11201-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 14

Research article 27 Jul 2021

Research article | 27 Jul 2021

Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality

Benjamin A. Nault et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11201-2021-supplement

Data sets

TexAQS 2000 Data TexAQS Science Team https://esrl.noaa.gov/csl/groups/csl7/measurements/2000TexAQS/LaPorte/DataDownload/

NEAQS 2002 Data NEAQS Science Team https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csl/groups/csl7/measurements/2002NEAQS/

CalNex Data CalNex Science Team https://esrl.noaa.gov/csl/groups/csl7/measurements/2010calnex/Ground/DataDownload/

ClearfLo Data ClearfLo Science Team https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6a5f9eedd68f43348692b3bace3eba45

SEAC4RS Data SEAC4RS Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Aircraft/SEAC4RS/Aerosol-TraceGas-Cloud

WINTER Data WINTER Science Team https://data.eol.ucar.edu/master_lists/generated/winter/

KORUS-AQ Data KORUS-AQ Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/KORUSAQ/DATA01

Jimenez Group Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications J. L. Jimenez http://cires1.colorado.edu/jimenez/group_pubs.html

MILAGRO Data MILAGRO Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Aircraft/INTEXB/Aerosol-TraceGas

Short summary

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is an important aspect of poor air quality for urban regions around the world, where a large fraction of the population lives. However, there is still large uncertainty in predicting SOA in urban regions. Here, we used data from 11 urban campaigns and show that the variability in SOA production in these regions is predictable and is explained by key emissions. These results are used to estimate the premature mortality associated with SOA in urban regions.