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25 Jan 2022
Research article |
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| 25 Jan 2022
Influence of organic aerosol molecular composition on particle absorptive properties in autumn Beijing
Jing Cai
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Cheng Wu
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
11418, Sweden
Jiandong Wang
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Feixue Zheng
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Simo Hakala
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Xiaolong Fan
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution
Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Zemin Feng
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Yongchun Liu
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and
Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Jun Zheng
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and
Pollution Control, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Federico Bianchi
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Markku Kulmala
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth
System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University,
Nanjing 210023, China
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow,
Russia
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
11418, Sweden
Kaspar R. Daellenbach
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute,
Villigen, Switzerland
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This study investigates the connection between organic aerosol (OA) molecular composition and particle absorptive properties in autumn in Beijing. We find that the molecular properties of OA compounds in different episodes influence particle light absorption properties differently: the light absorption enhancement of black carbon and light absorption coefficient of brown carbon were mostly related to more oxygenated OA (low C number and four O atoms) and aromatics/nitro-aromatics, respectively.
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