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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-805-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-805-2022
Research article
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18 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 18 Jan 2022

Field observational constraints on the controllers in glyoxal (CHOCHO) reactive uptake to aerosol

Dongwook Kim, Changmin Cho, Seokhan Jeong, Soojin Lee, Benjamin A. Nault, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Douglas A. Day, Jason C. Schroder, Jose L. Jimenez, Rainer Volkamer, Donald R. Blake, Armin Wisthaler, Alan Fried, Joshua P. DiGangi, Glenn S. Diskin, Sally E. Pusede, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, L. Gregory Huey, David J. Tanner, Jack Dibb, Christoph J. Knote, and Kyung-Eun Min
Abstract

Glyoxal (CHOCHO), the simplest dicarbonyl in the troposphere, is a potential precursor for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and brown carbon (BrC) affecting air quality and climate. The airborne measurement of CHOCHO concentrations during the KORUS-AQ (KORea–US Air Quality study) campaign in 2016 enables detailed quantification of loss mechanisms pertaining to SOA formation in the real atmosphere. The production of this molecule was mainly from oxidation of aromatics (59 %) initiated by hydroxyl radical (OH). CHOCHO loss to aerosol was found to be the most important removal path (69 %) and contributed to roughly  20 % (3.7 µg sm−3 ppmv−1 h−1, normalized with excess CO) of SOA growth in the first 6 h in Seoul Metropolitan Area. A reactive uptake coefficient (γ) of  0.008 best represents the loss of CHOCHO by surface uptake during the campaign. To our knowledge, we show the first field observation of aerosol surface-area-dependent (Asurf) CHOCHO uptake, which diverges from the simple surface uptake assumption as Asurf increases in ambient condition. Specifically, under the low (high) aerosol loading, the CHOCHO effective uptake rate coefficient, keff,uptake, linearly increases (levels off) with Asurf; thus, the irreversible surface uptake is a reasonable (unreasonable) approximation for simulating CHOCHO loss to aerosol. Dependence on photochemical impact and changes in the chemical and physical aerosol properties “free water”, as well as aerosol viscosity, are discussed as other possible factors influencing CHOCHO uptake rate. Our inferred Henry's law coefficient of CHOCHO, 7.0×108 M atm−1, is  2 orders of magnitude higher than those estimated from salting-in effects constrained by inorganic salts only consistent with laboratory findings that show similar high partitioning into water-soluble organics, which urges more understanding on CHOCHO solubility under real atmospheric conditions.

1 Introduction

Glyoxal (CHOCHO), the simplest α-dicarbonyl, has significant importance in air quality and climate. Since this molecule is secondarily produced from oxidations of various biogenic (e.g., isoprene) (Li et al., 2016; Chan Miller et al., 2017) and anthropogenic (e.g., aromatics) (Volkamer et al., 2001; Nishino et al., 2010) volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with different yields. Due to this character, there have been many attempts to use the CHOCHO to formaldehyde ratio (RGF) for parent VOC speciation (MacDonald et al., 2012; Kaiser et al., 2015; Chan Miller et al., 2016; Li et al., 2016; Zarzana et al., 2017, 2018). In addition, CHOCHO has also been proposed as an important precursor for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation over the past few decades (Jang and Kamens, 2001; Liggio et al., 2005b; Volkamer et al., 2007) due to its high water solubility (Zhou and Mopper, 1990; Kroll et al., 2005; Ip et al., 2009; Kampf et al., 2013), oligomerization potential (Whipple, 1970; Liggio et al., 2005a; Loeffler et al., 2006; Galloway et al., 2009), and aqueous-phase oxidation in cloud droplets and aerosol liquid water (Galloway et al., 2009; Volkamer et al., 2009; Ervens and Volkamer, 2010; Rossignol et al., 2014). The latter can be climate-relevant owing to the production of light-absorbing brown carbon components (Powelson et al., 2014; Marrero-Ortiz et al., 2019; De Haan et al., 2020a, b). Due to its importance in atmospheric processes, detailed CHOCHO loss mechanisms need to be better constrained.

CHOCHO losses by photolysis (Feierabend et al., 2009) and OH oxidation (Feierabend et al., 2008) are relatively well-known pathways compared to aerosol uptake. There have been many laboratory efforts to investigate the underlying mechanisms of CHOCHO's aerosol loss. Liggio et al. (2005a, b) showed that CHOCHO aerosol uptake loss could be as important as photolysis and OH oxidation under atmospherically relevant chamber conditions, and thus it could be an important source of SOA. Further studies conducted since then have shown that the CHOCHO uptake process is quite complex and depends on many variables, such as acidity (Liggio et al., 2005b; Gomez et al., 2015; Shi et al., 2020), inorganic salts (Kroll et al., 2005; Kampf et al., 2013), radiation (Carlton et al., 2007; Galloway et al., 2009; Volkamer et al., 2009; Sumner et al., 2014), and relative humidity (RH) (Curry et al., 2018; Gen et al., 2018; Shen et al., 2018).

In the presence of inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (AS) and ammonium nitrate (AN), CHOCHO's solubility in aerosol increases several orders of magnitude compared to solubility in pure water, which is known as “salting-in” effect (Kampf et al., 2013). This can lead to a large fraction of CHOCHO being oxidized in the aqueous phase, thus resulting in less volatile products (Knote et al., 2014; Waxman et al., 2015; Sareen et al., 2017; Ling et al., 2020). In addition, CHOCHO was observed to have high solubility to some water soluble organic acid aerosol seeds such as fulvic acid, l-tartaric acid, and dl-malic acid (Corrigan et al., 2008; Volkamer et al., 2009; Kampf et al., 2013). More recently, more complex controls such as the acceleration of CHOCHO uptake processes in the presence of other gaseous organic species have been reported (Qin et al., 2020). Overall, most of these studies have concluded that CHOCHO has a significant role in SOA formation. However, the solubility of CHOCHO in ambient conditions is highly uncertain, since the studies that constrained CHOCHO solubility in ambient conditions are rare.

Many recent regional and global modeling studies (Fu et al., 2008; Knote et al., 2014; Hu et al., 2017; Stadtler et al., 2018; Bates and Jacob, 2019; Liu et al., 2020; Qiu et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2020), as well as several works constrained by in situ field observations (Volkamer et al., 2007; Washenfelder et al., 2011; Li et al., 2016; Ling et al., 2020), have reported that CHOCHO contributes 0 % to 25 % to SOA formation. This large variability resulted from the different conditions of the individual studies, focusing on different VOC precursors, biogenic (Li et al., 2016; Xu et al., 2020) vs. anthropogenic sources (Volkamer et al., 2007; Liu et al., 2020; Qiu et al., 2020), and using different simulation tools, such as 0-D box (Volkamer et al., 2007), Lagrangian (Washenfelder et al., 2011), and 3-D transport models (Fu et al., 2008; Knote et al., 2014; Chan Miller et al., 2016; Li et al., 2016; Chan Miller et al., 2017; Sareen et al., 2017; Hu et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2020; Qiu et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2020). These model studies were run with (Washenfelder et al., 2011) or without (Volkamer et al., 2007; Knote et al., 2014) a steady-state assumption for CHOCHO and employed different aerosol uptake treatments such as surface uptake only (Washenfelder et al., 2011; Li et al., 2016) or allowing simultaneous volume control processes (Knote et al., 2014; Ling et al., 2020).

To add more constraints on the CHOCHO contribution to SOA formation, we investigated CHOCHO partitioning to aerosols from an in situ airborne campaign over the Korean Peninsula, where the emissions of CHOCHO-producing VOCs are highly variable. Two independent methods – a steady-state approach using a 0-D box model and a hybrid method (Knote et al., 2014) using semi-explicit aqueous chemistry together with surface uptake – were used and compared to investigate more details in uptake processes of CHOCHO. From this work, we found that the simple surface uptake approximation is only applicable for low aerosol loading circumstances during the KORUS-AQ (KORea–US Air Quality study) campaign. The dependence of these processes on photochemical activeness, together with evidence of insufficient understanding on CHOCHO solubility, especially in low inorganic salt conditions, are discussed.

2 Materials and methods

We investigated the CHOCHO contribution to SOA formation (hereinafter, glySOA) via comparison of direct observations with an estimate from a diurnal steady-state 0-D box model, constrained by in situ airborne precursor measurements. The magnitude of the evaluated aerosol enhancement owing to CHOCHO uptake is then compared to the results from the hybrid scheme similar to Knote et al. (2014). Details on the data treatment, model settings, and the analysis methods follow.

In addition, aerosol data reported here are at standard temperature and pressure (273 K and 1013 hPa) conditions, leading to the unit of µg sm−3, where sm3 refers to the standard volume in cubic meters. Moreover, the median and interquartile range (25 %–75 %) were used to represent the variabilities in distributions, except as otherwise indicated.

2.1 Data description

We used airborne measurements of CHOCHO, taken as part of the KORUS-AQ 2016 (KORea and United States – Air Quality study 2016), conducted from 1 May to 10 June 2016, over South Korea, with close collaboration of scientists from South Korea, the USA, and other countries to understand the local, regional, and hemispheric influences on emissions, chemistry, and air quality (Crawford et al., 2021). The entire KORUS-AQ 2016 dataset, which was acquired from various measurement platforms (i.e., aircraft, research vessel, satellites, and ground sites), is available from the NASA data archive (https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/korus-aq/, last access: 20 February 2021). The observational data used in this analysis were taken aboard the NASA DC-8 for research flights (RFs) where CHOCHO measurements are available (18 out of 20 RFs, RF no. 01 and no. 03 are missing; details are given in Table S1 in the Supplement). We only focused on data that fall in the geographically confined area of the Korean peninsula and its coastal region (34.3–38 N, 125.8–129 E), as shown in Fig. 1a, to investigate production and loss mechanisms of CHOCHO under the influence of inland sources in Korea (Peterson et al., 2019).

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Figure 1(a) Flight tacks and the geographically averaged (latitude: 0.14; longitude: 0.15) mixing ratios of (b) glyoxal (CHOCHO), (c) formaldehyde (HCHO), (d) carbon monoxide (CO), (e) benzene, (f) toluene, (g) nitrogen oxides (NOx), and (h) isoprene (below 2 km altitude) over Korea measured during the KORUS-AQ campaign. Green and pink circles in (a) represent the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) and West Coastal Industrial Area (WCIA), respectively. The upper limit concentrations were set as the maximum values in each color bar for the visualization of lower-abundance data points.

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The list of chemical species and physical parameters used in our analysis, together with their measurement techniques, is given in Table 1. Here, we only provide brief descriptions of the CHOCHO measuring system, CAvity Enhanced Spectrometer for Atmospheric Researches (CAESAR), based on the same measurement principle and layout as the CHOCHO instrument at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) (Min et al., 2016). Air is drawn into the system via a coaxial overflow inlet (using two kinds of PFA tubing one with a 0.5 in. outer diameter and the other with a 0.25 in. outer diameter; total length: <1.5 m) through a Teflon membrane filter (2 µm pore) to keep the optics clean and to avoid light attenuation by aerosol scattering. The 455 nm centered cavity consists of an LED as a light source, collimating optics, and high-reflection mirrors (reflectivity: 99.9973 %; effective light path length: up to 12 km), which enables us to quantify CHOCHO and NO2 with zeroing errors of 34 and 80 pptv for 5 s averages (2σ) and accuracy of 5.8 % and 5.0 %, respectively, using the custom-built retrieving algorithm of the DOASIS software (Kraus, 2006) (fitting range: 438–468 nm). To ensure the best instrumental performance, cavity calibrations were performed every 5 m by sequential overflows of He and zero air (30 s injection for each).

Table 1Measurements from DC-8 used in this study.

a Total reactive nitrogen. b Georgia Institute of Technology – Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. c California Institute of Technology – Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. d Airborne Tropospheric Hydrogen Oxides Sensor. e Differential Absorption Carbon monOxide Measurements. f Whole Air Sampler. g Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. h Compact Atmospheric Multi-species Spectrometer. i CAvity Enhanced Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Research. j Diode Laser Hygrometer. k High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer. l Soluble Acidic Gases and Aerosols. m Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment. n Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (TSI model 3936). o Laser Aerosol Spectrometer (TSI model 3340). p CCD Actinic Flux Spectrometers. q Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research.

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To analyze the magnitude of glySOA, we only focused on measurements below 2 km altitude, which includes the boundary layer in most cases, where the CHOCHO abundance was higher than CAESAR's detection limits. In addition, CHOCHO data lower than the zeroing error were removed to reduce uncertainty in the calculation of glySOA; glySOA formation by cloud chemistry was not included in this work as intercepts with cloud were rare (sampling frequency being less than 3 % below 2 km altitude). In addition, to constrain the 0-D box model with DC-8 observations, 1 min merged data (version R6, https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/KORUSAQ/DATA01) were used for the measurement parameters with high time resolution. Meanwhile, for the species with coarser time resolution than 1 min, (i.e., WAS data), a pseudo-1 min data generation scheme, similar to that of Schroeder et al. (2020), was applied based on the measurements of the PTR-TOF-MS (for aromatics and isoprene) and CAMS (for other hydrocarbon compounds such as alkanes, alkenes, and alkyne) to match the timestamps; the detailed interpolation method is described in Sect. S2, Fig. S1, and Table S2 in the Supplement. For the comparison of oxalate and OA, synchronized timestamps with SAGA filter measurements were used.

2.2 Model description

The Framework for 0-Dimensional Atmospheric Modeling (F0AM v3.2) (Wolfe et al., 2016) was used as our tool to simulate CHOCHO with the Master Chemical Mechanism v3.3.1 (Jenkin et al., 2015 and references there in). We constrained our model with 50 chemical species and 10 physical parameters as listed in Table S2. The total number of chemical reactions considered in our model is over 11 325 with 3742 chemical species tracked.

The model was initialized with observations from the aircraft, and the oVOCs (oxidized VOCs), including CHOCHO, were produced under co-evolving irradiation with fixed-parent VOCs concentrations for a day at 1 min time resolution. The photolysis frequencies evolve in real time over the course of model steps, similar to other aircraft observations constrained box modeling works (Olson et al., 2006; Kaiser et al., 2016; Anderson et al., 2017; Marvin et al., 2017; Brune et al., 2018; Haskins et al., 2019; Brune et al., 2020; Souri et al., 2020). Specifically, the model was run for a full day with updated photolysis frequencies (j) every 1 h by implementing calculated solar zenith angle (SZA) and was scaled with measured photolysis frequencies from the CAFS (CCD Actinic Flux Spectrometers).

2.3 Parametrizations of CHOCHO loss by SOA formation

From the F0AM results, the evolution of CHOCHO was calculated from the balance of production (PGly) and loss (LGly) rates, as described in Eq. (1).

(1)d[Gly]moddt=PGly,mod-LGly,mod(2)LGly,mod=LGly+OH+LGly+hν+Lmet=kGly+OHOHmod+jGly+kdil[Gly]mod

LGly,mod only includes the losses of OH oxidation (LGly+OH), photolysis (LGly+hν), and physical processes to mimic deposition and dilution (Lmet), as expressed in Eq. (2). Thus the [Gly]mod stands for the simulated CHOCHO concentration without aerosol loss. The loss rates of individual paths in the model were calculated as the sum of the corresponding reaction rate coefficient kGly+OH and photolysis frequency jGly, with physical mixing rate representing the dilution, deposition, and transport (kdil, set as a day by following Wolfe et al., 2016).

The loss rate of CHOCHO via aerosol formation (LGly,aerosol) was then analytically quantified under steady-state assumptions using modeled production and loss rates of CHOCHO. CHOCHO is a short-lived intermediate oVOC with a lifetime of a few hours (even without considering the aerosol loss path, see Sect. 3.3); thus, the steady-state assumption is valid except for measurements near sources. Under the steady-state assumption, the production rates of CHOCHO (PGly,mod), directly extracted from F0AM, need to be balanced with real loss rates of CHOCHO (LGly,real), accounting for LGly,aerosol, as Eq. (3) shows.

(3) P Gly , mod L Gly , real = k Gly + OH OH mod + j Gly + k dil Gly obs + L Gly , aerosol

Here, the instantaneous OH oxidation, photolysis, and meteorological losses (kGly+OH[OH]mod+jGly+kdil) were inferred from modeled outputs as LGly,mod/[Gly]mod. [Gly]obs refers to the measured CHOCHO concentration.

(4) L Gly , aerosol = P glySOA eff . Steady State = P Gly , mod - ( k Gly + OH OH mod + j Gly + k dil ) Gly obs = k eff , uptake Gly obs

One should note that the CHOCHO uptake rate coefficient assessed as in Eq. (4) is regarded as a pseudo-first-order, effective uptake rate coefficient (keff,uptake), which is a net result of competition between reversible and irreversible processes in real atmosphere. This stems from the underlying mechanisms of CHOCHO uptake on the aerosol either being reversible or not, which depends on various factors, such as aerosol acidity, seed type, RH, and radiative flux (Liggio et al., 2005a, b; Kroll et al., 2005; Corrigan et al., 2008; Kampf et al., 2013; Curry et al., 2018).

Following this, the SOA production rate owing to CHOCHO uptake (PglySOA) was estimated from the inferred keff,uptake and observed CHOCHO concentration. In Sect. 3.6, we tracked the importance of PglySOA in organic aerosol (OA) growth as the air mass evolves with the photochemical age (Photoage, hour) based on the NOx/NOy chemical clock by following Kleinman et al. (2003) via Eq. (5).

(5) Photo age = ln NO x NO y / ( k OH + NO 2 [ OH ] )

Here, an updated reaction rate coefficient of OH and NO2, 9.2×10-12 cm3 molec.−1 s−1, was used (Mollner et al., 2010). For more relevant photochemical ages in Korea, the average OH concentration during KORUS-AQ (4.84±2.31×106 molec. cm−3, roughly 3–4 times higher than the commonly used value, 1.5×106 molec. cm−3, since the measurements were conducted only in the daytime period, 08:00–17:00 LT) in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA, with the highest population density in South Korea) was also used.

To reconcile the deviation of diurnal steady-state assumption against the reality, photochemical age-dependent adjustment analysis was also carried out to account for the potential underestimation or overestimation in oVOCs production with respect to the plume age. Fresh plumes close to the sources tend to not have enough time for oxidation products to build up as the simulation of a full-day evolution. Meanwhile, old plumes tend to be processed over more than just a single day. To compensate for this, an adjustment factor was introduced from the relationship between the ratio of modeled and measured HCHO against Photoage. This adjustment was applied to the CHOCHO production rate; more details on the discussions and results are in Sect. S3 and Figs. S2 to S4. The main results with this adjustment are presented together with that of the original simulation without this adjustment.

2.4 Semi-explicit estimation of CHOCHO loss to aerosol

To provide more constraints on aqueous-phase reactions once CHOCHO is taken up by aerosol and to test the validity of our steady-state assumption in glySOA estimation, a hybrid approach, via semi-explicit aerosol loss treatment of volume processes together with surface uptake treatment, was conducted in similar way to in Knote et al. (2014) (Sect. S9). Details on the backgrounds and parameterizations are described in Knote et al. (2014). Briefly, for the surface processes, first-order reactive uptake treatment was used to compare with F0AM results under the assumption of irreversible surface reaction in free molecular regime without Fuch–Sutugin correction (Tang et al., 2015; Seinfeld and Pandis, 2016), which corrects for slip correction in the transition regime. This is not only due to its negligible influence (<5 % difference in ksurf,uptake) but also so that the linear relation between ksurf,uptake and reactive CHOCHO uptake coefficient (γGly,uptake), as described in Eq. (6), is retained.

(6) k eff , uptake = 1 4 v Gly γ Gly , uptake A surf

Here, Asurf refers to the aerosol surface area density (cm2 cm−3), vGly stands for the mean molecular speed (cm s−1), and γGly,uptake (unitless) indicates the uptake probability of a CHOCHO molecule colliding and reacting on an aerosol surface.

For simulating volume-controlled processes through aqueous-phase reactions, it was assumed that gas-phase and dissolved-phase CHOCHO (CHOCHO monomer, hydrates, and oligomers) are in steady state (more details are given in Sect. S4 and Fig. S6). Briefly, the equilibrium concentration of aqueous-phase CHOCHO, including both hydrates and oligomers, was calculated using effective Henry's law coefficient, KH,eff_Gly, as in Eq. (7) from Kampf et al. (2013) and reflecting the parameterization from Waxman et al. (2015) with the kinetic limit of “salting-in” effect at high salt concentration.

(7) K H , eff _ Gly = K H , water _ Gly 10 - 0.24 × min 12 , C AS - 0.07 × C AN

Here, the parameters in parentheses stand for the adjustment factor for KH,water_Gly, i.e., Henry's law coefficient of CHOCHO in diluted water. CAS and CAN denote the molarities (mol kg−1, m) of AS and AN in aerosol, respectively. In this study, salting constants of 0.24 and 0.07 were applied for AS and AN, respectively, by following Waxman et al. (2015). In addition, the kinetic limit of 12 m was set only for the concentrations of AS (Kampf et al., 2013), since that of AN has not been experimentally demonstrated yet.

For the instantaneous equilibrium partitioning between CHOCHO monomers and oligomers, an oligomerization constant (Kolig=[Gly]oligomer/[Gly]monomer+hyrate) of 0.5 (1) was used for the cases where CAS is larger (smaller) than the limit of salt concentration, 12 m (Knote et al., 2014). In addition, the aqueous-phase OH oxidation path was treated as an effective photochemical reaction with the rate of CHOCHO monomer and hydrates (kphotochem, 2 s−1) adopted from Ervens and Volkamer (2010), since [OH]aq inferred from measured gas-phase OH under the assumption of equilibrium state (KH,OH=25 M atm−1) (Klaning et al., 1985) is highly uncertain; estimated [OH]aq with KH,OH not only accounts for losses of OH in aerosols (Herrmann et al., 2010; Waxman et al., 2013) but also for additional radical generation from photochemical reactions of organics (Volkamer et al., 2009; Monge et al., 2012; Tong et al., 2016) and inorganics (Paulson et al., 2019).

Aerosol physical sizes measured from LARGE (Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment) are dried aerosol sizes. To estimate the ambient diameter of an aerosol, and thus estimate more realistic aerosol surface area density, the hygroscopic growth factor (gfdiam) following Brock et al. (2016) was used as described in Eq. (8).

(8) gf diam 1 + κ chem × RH 100 - RH 1 / 3

Here, the hygroscopicity parameter (κchem) for a mixed particle was calculated from the volume-weighted average of its individual chemical components (OA, NH4NO3, (NH4)HSO4, and (NH4)2SO4) and most of the hygroscopicity estimations (except those for OA) were taken from Brock et al. (2016) and references therein. The hygroscopicity parameter of OA (κOA) was parameterized with O/C as 0.190×(O/C)-0.0048 by following Rickards et al. (2013).

CAS and CAN in Eq. (8) are calculated from the sulfate, nitrate, and aerosol liquid water content (ALWC) calculated from the Extended Aerosol Inorganic Model (E-AIM) (Clegg and Brimblecombe, 1990; Clegg et al., 1998; Massucci et al., 1999; Wexler, 2002; Friese and Ebel, 2010). In the model, the amount of each chemical component in aerosol was calculated from the measurements of gas-phase HNO3; particle-phase ammonium, nitrate, and sulfate; and local environmental parameters (e.g., RH and temperature). Inorganic aerosol mass from the High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS, Aerodyne Research, Inc.) and gas-phase HNO3 from CIT-CIMS were used to run the E-AIM model (specifically, Model IV in forward mode with ammonia being estimated recursively) (Clegg et al., 1998; Friese and Ebel, 2010). ALWC associated with inorganic compounds was also calculated from the E-AIM model. When calculating ALWC, an organic portion was added if O/C (oxygen to carbon ratio of OA) was higher than 0.7, assuming organic phase separation from inorganics at O/C less than 0.7 (Song et al., 2018, 2019; Gorkowski et al., 2020).

3 Results and discussion

3.1 Observed spatial distribution of CHOCHO and relevant species

The average CHOCHO concentration over the whole campaign period was 107±58 ppt, with the highest concentration being 1.05 (2.10) ppb the 1 min (10 s) average. The spatially binned (latitude: 0.14; longitude: 0.15) CHOCHO distribution, together with other relevant measured species, and the DC-8 flight tracks are shown in Fig. 1. In general, the concentrations of the enhanced CHOCHO and other species were observed near the SMA and the West Coastal Industrial Area (WCIA) where petrochemical complex, steel mill, and power plant facilities are located. The observed CHOCHO enhancement is comparable to previously reported airborne measurements taken over the southeastern United States (up to 1.0 ppb within the boundary layer) (Li et al., 2016). The spatial distribution of CHOCHO (Fig. 1b) is somewhat different from other oVOCs, specifically HCHO, which is another ubiquitous oVOC (Fig. 1c). The CHOCHO enhancement over the WCIA is less comparable to CO than that of HCHO, where VOCs such as ethane, propane, ethene, and n-butane emissions are dominant in this region (Simpson et al., 2020). Meanwhile, aromatic distributions have more similarities with CHOCHO, such as benzene (Fig. 1e, in WCIA), toluene (Fig. 1f), xylene, and trimethylbenzenes near the SMA (Fig. S7).

3.2 Zero-dimensional (0-D) box model results

Figure 2 shows the direct comparisons of chemical species estimated from the F0AM to the measurements taken on board a NASA DC-8. Unless otherwise specified, the least orthogonal distance regression (ODR) forced through zero intercept method is used for linear regression fits, and Pearson R is used for the goodness of the fits. In general, the diurnal steady-state box model simulates the gas-phase oxidation processes reasonably well by considering the measurement uncertainties as shown for OH, HO2, and HCHO (Fig. 2a–c). In contrast to HCHO, where the model shows broad agreement (an overall slope of 1.23±0.02), the CHOCHO model overestimates compared to the measurements by 3.24 (±0.06) times (Fig. 2d). For the model run without photochemical-age-dependent adjustment, HCHO and CHOCHO regression slopes are 1.08 (±0.01, Fig. S2c–d) and 2.89 (±0.05). This model–observation discrepancy of CHOCHO was also observed in other urban environments, such as Mexico City (Volkamer et al., 2007) and the Pearl River Delta (Ling et al., 2020).

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Figure 2Comparison of measured and modeled (a) OH, (b) HO2, (c) HCHO, and (d) CHOCHO without (with) loss to aerosol in green (brown) circles. The dashed black line represents 1 : 1 line and red (yellow) line is the best orthogonal distance regression (ODR) fit forced through the origin and Pearson R.

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We presume that our model overestimation is due to underestimation in CHOCHO loss, since the CHOCHO instrumental loss along the airway had been identified as negligible (0.0001±0.005 % cm2 s−1) (Min et al., 2016), and oVOC production in the model is comparable to that of reality. The modeled OH reactivity is only 8 % (on average) higher than measurements (Fig. S5d), and the constrained parent VOCs from the combined observations of WAS, PTR-TOF-MS, and CAMS were quite comprehensive. Even with insufficient understanding of detailed oxidation mechanisms to and from CHOCHO, especially under extremely high NOx conditions, CHOCHO yields from aromatic oxidations in Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) v3.3.1 are reasonably well constrained in the NOx range relevant to KORUS-AQ campaign (Bates et al., 2021).

Moreover, the direct comparison between modeled and measured CHOCHO neglects the possible contribution of primary CHOCHO emission in the measurements. Qiu et al. (2020) showed the importance of primarily emitted CHOCHO in Beijing in a wintertime study, finding direct CHOCHO emissions from vehicles and industrial activities. Since we assumed that all measured CHOCHO was secondarily formed, we cannot rule out the possibility of an even larger discrepancy between the model and observations, especially for the SMA and industrial areas where direct CHOCHO emission is suspected to be non-negligible. We prefer to provide a conservative glySOA by assuming all measured CHOCHO to be secondary, since the portion of primary CHOCHO in aircraft measurements is largely uncertain. However, considering vertical transport time with respect to the short lifetime of CHOCHO, most of the measured CHOCHO on board is expected to be secondary.

To test the hypothesis that the gap between modeled and observed CHOCHO can be explained by uptake to aerosol, a steady-state approach was used (as described in Sect. 2.3) to infer keff,uptake. As a quality check, we plugged the keff,uptake parameter back into the model to simulate the loss of CHOCHO via glySOA path. The CHOCHO prediction with updated loss to aerosol reproduced measured CHOCHO well, as shown in Fig. 2d, and thus we presume that the possible bias of primary CHOCHO contribution is not significant. In addition, the agreement between observations and the box model indicates near-steady-state glyoxal during the 24 h diurnal evolution in the box model. Possible bias in keff,uptake due to the measurement errors was quantified by varying input concentrations with their uncertainties. As shown in Fig. S8 in Sect. S6, the largest variability in VOCs input results in ±10 % variation of keff,uptake. In addition, the possible errors in photochemical-age-dependent adjustments are about 27 %, as shown in Fig. S4. More about the controlling factors in keff,uptake follows in Sect. 3.4 after the sources and sinks discussion.

3.3 CHOCHO sources and sinks apportionment

Roughly 59 % of CHOCHO in the model originates from aromatics, with the largest contribution from toluene (41 %, Fig. 3a), as supported by previous works with high glyoxal yields (10 %–40 %) from aromatic compounds (i.e., benzene, toluene, p-xylene, and ethylbenzene) under high NOx conditions (Volkamer et al., 2001, 2007; Bates et al., 2021). We estimate that 20 % of CHOCHO is produced from biogenic VOCs (BVOCs), specifically isoprene, α-pinene, and β-pinene. The biogenic portion of glyoxal production is potentially biased low as the DC-8 flight paths focused more on anthropogenic sources, and some portion of isoprene can be oxidized as advected to the sampling altitude due to its short lifetime.

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Figure 3Major CHOCHO (a) sources and (b) sinks from the 0-D box model analysis over South Korea. Panel (c) shows the aerosol surface area density (Asurf) dependent CHOCHO loss rates plotted as the ratio of effective aerosol uptake rate (keff,uptake) with respect to sum of CHOCHO losses by OH oxidation and photolysis (kGly+OH[OH]+jGly). Hereafter, median (square markers) and interquartile ranges (vertical bars) are used to represent the data variability, unless otherwise specified.

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The OH oxidation and photolysis loss are only responsible for 13 % and 19 % of CHOCHO losses, respectively, while roughly 69 % of CHOCHO must be lost via aerosol uptake to reconcile the imbalance between modeled and measured concentrations (Fig. 3b). This large importance of the aerosol uptake pathway is consistent with previous works in Mexico City (75 %–95 %) (Volkamer et al., 2007) and in the Pearl River Delta measurements ( 62 %) (Ling et al., 2020) but is much larger than that in Los Angeles (0 %–30 %) (Washenfelder et al., 2011).

The model-estimated lifetime of CHOCHO without aerosol uptake (in Fig. S9), 1.57±0.23 h, is consistent with the general estimation of a few hours. However, when aerosol uptake is included, the CHOCHO lifetime decreases to 0.50±0.26 h during the typical flight duration (08:00–17:00 LT), which is also consistent with previous results (Volkamer et al., 2007).

The importance of aerosol uptake loss has clear dependence on Asurf. Figure 3c shows the ratio of keff,uptake/(kOH+Gly[OH]+jGly) against Asurf. This ratio levels off around 2.5 under high Asurf conditions, but it converges to 0 as Asurf decreases since the keff,uptake becomes close to 0 when Asurf is 0 (no significant positive intercept), as shown in Fig. 4a. This confirms that our inferred keff,uptake is legitimate, since the CHOCHO budget is closed only with photolysis and OH oxidation loss in the absence of aerosol. Meanwhile, our steady-state model diverges more, and thus required it higher keff,uptake to reconcile the gap with observed CHOCHO as Asurf increases. This is a clear evidence of the requirement for an additional sink of CHOCHO in the presence of aerosols.

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Figure 4The (1/4vGLYAsurf) dependence of (a) keff,uptake, (b) higher (red) and lower (blue) jNO2 than median conditions (8.6×10-3 s−1), and (c) ammonium sulfate (AS) and ammonium nitrate (AN) molality, and the effective Henry's law constant, KH,eff_Gly, parameterized with AS and AN molalities. Dashed black lines in (a) and (b) are a few examples of the uptake coefficient, γ. Shaded areas represent interquartile ranges.

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3.4 Different CHOCHO uptake regimes

The estimated keff,uptake is 1.2–6.0 × 10−4 s−1 throughout the whole mission, which falls within the range of previous reports (1.3–5.0 × 10−4 s−1) (Hastings et al., 2005; Liggio et al., 2005a; Ervens and Volkamer, 2010). Interestingly, our inferred keff,uptake has a clear dependency on Asurf, as shown in Fig. 4a. The keff,uptake shows a linear relationship with Asurf in lower Asurf conditions (less than 4.9×10-6 cm2 cm−3, with averaged νGly, 3.3×104 cm s−1, hereafter defined as Regime I). Meanwhile, keff,uptake levels off for larger Asurf (hereafter named Regime II). One should note that slopes in Fig. 4a–b become the reactive uptake coefficient, γGly,uptake, since it shows the relation between keff,uptake and Asurf scaled with 1/4νGly. Extracted median γGly,uptake, assuming 100 % surface uptake, is 0.98(±0.07)×10-2 for Regime I and 0.82(±0.57)×10-2 for both regimes, which also overlaps with what Ervens and Volkamer (2010) reported for hygroscopic aerosol (0.8(±0.3)×10-2).

The linearity between keff,uptake and Asurf in Regime I indicates that irreversible uptake on the aerosol surface is a reasonable approximation to mimic the behavior of CHOCHO uptake for the conditions with low aerosol loading, since averaged aerosol modes across the regimes are found to be similar to each other over varying Asurf (Fig. S10); thus, the number of particles matters more than aerosol size.

As shown in Fig. 4b, the keff,uptake dependence on jNO2 (a proxy for solar irradiation) exists in both regimes (more apparent in Regime II, where keff,uptake is enhanced by  40 % at higher jNO2 compared to lower jNO2) and suggests the possibility of accelerated aqueous-phase chemistry in SOA under active photochemistry. This light dependence of keff,uptake is consistent with findings from previous laboratory studies as it found noticeable acceleration in CHOCHO aerosol uptake under irradiated (compared to dark) conditions (Volkamer et al., 2009; Ervens and Volkamer, 2010). However, note that the interquartile ranges are broad, especially at high jNO2, and thus we cannot rule out the possibility that other unaccounted for factors contribute to the distinction between high and low jNO2. We speculate that the effect of organic coating on aerosols from VOCs on photochemical uptake rate of CHOCHO (Galloway et al., 2011) was not significant in this work. The increase in keff,uptake (decrease in CHOCHO uptake timescale) under high jNO2 may reflect faster production of low volatility products via irreversible pathways, likely due to enhanced organic photochemistry (Volkamer et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2011).

In Regime II, keff,uptake plateaus in a range of 3–6 × 10−4 s−1 and becomes relatively insensitive to Asurf. One possible explanation of independent behavior of keff,uptake in Regime II is likely related to aerosol viscosity. Figure 4c shows CAS and CAN change with respect to Asurf; CAN increases and levels off near the boundary of Regime I and II. An increase in salt molality may lead to limited available “free water” and/or more viscous aerosol, retarding mass transfer into the aerosol. Kampf et al. (2013) previously observed slower CHOCHO mass transfer for CAS larger than 12 m conditions (kinetic limitation) and suggested that at high salt concentration fewer water molecules are available for hydration and/or particle viscosity increases, leading to slower kinetics. Similar to this phenomenon, we postulate the possibility that the higher CAN in Regime II may slow down the kinetics; thus, more studies on the CAN effect on the timescale of CHOCHO mass transfer into particle are desirable.

3.5 The glySOA production rate comparison

Figure 5a shows the results of glySOA production rate (PglySOA) comparison between the 0-D box model (PglySOA,eff.SteadyState, Eq. 4) and hybrid treatment (PglySOA, hybrid, Sect. S9) in Regime I. Calculated PglySOA without surface uptake (volume process only) is 2–3 orders of magnitude slower than that of the steady-state result, suggesting the importance of the surface uptake process in Regime I, indicating that volume process by inorganic salts alone is not sufficient to explain the glyoxal uptake rate during the KORUS-AQ, which is consistent with findings in Mexico City (Waxman et al., 2013). By adding the surface uptake process using the median γGly,uptake in Regime I (0.98×10-2), the hybrid method matches within an order of magnitude with a steady-state box model analysis. Thus, the hybrid method in Regime I is almost identical to the surface reactive uptake model.

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Figure 5Comparison of glySOA production rate (PglySOA) between steady-state and hybrid analysis for (a) Regime I with (pink diamonds, γGly,uptake=0.0098) and without (green diamonds) the surface uptake process. (b) Regime II with fixed KH,eff_Gly (7.0×108 M atm−1, green circles) and calculated KH,eff_Gly based on salting in by AN and AS following Waxman et al. (2015) (colored circles). Surface uptake process was not included in (b).

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In Regime II, the reactive surface uptake process with one fixed γGly,uptake is unlikely due to the lack of linearity between keff,uptake and Asurf (Fig. 4a–b). In order to apply the surface uptake model, parameterization of γGly,uptake may be needed in Regime II. When the volume process is applied, the inferred PglySOA from constrained KH,eff_Gly with measured CAS and CAN through Eq. (7) without the surface uptake process (PglySOA,eff.photochem, Sect. S4) is 2 orders of magnitude lower than PglySOA,eff.SteadyState, as shown in colored circles in Fig. 5b. One fixed KH,eff_Gly of 7.0×108 M atm−1, close to the KH,eff_Gly at the AS seed kinetic limit (3×108 M atm−1, Kampf et al., 2013), provides better agreement. It indicates that the KH,eff_Gly driven by AS and AN is not sufficient to explain the required KH,eff_Gly of CHOCHO. Although the increase in CHOCHO solubility by some of the inorganics other than AS and AN not included in KH,eff_Gly calculation (e.g., NaCl and NH4HSO4) cannot be ruled out, due to their low concentrations, the KH,eff_Gly contribution from these species is not significant enough (less than 5 %) to explain the required KH,eff_Gly. Even higher KH,eff_Gly (3×109 M atm−1) is required for Regime I (Fig. S11).

One possible explanation for high KH,eff_Gly ( 108 M atm−1) even in low salt conditions (i.e., CAS<12m) is the influence of organic compounds by various oligomerization pathways. Moreover, aerosol seeds consist of water-soluble organic carbons (e.g., fulvic acid) that can enhance the solubility of CHOCHO (up to 6.0×108 M atm−1 of KH,eff_Gly, Volkamer et al., 2009). Corrigan et al. (2008) observed KH,eff_Gly>108 M atm−1 with various organic acid aerosol seeds, including l-tartaric acid, dl-malic acid, and other liquid-phase aerosol particles containing amine functional groups. In addition, Qin et al. (2020) found the synergetic effect of CHOCHO uptake by coexistence with pinanediol and proposed acid-catalyzed cross-reactions that enhance the reactivity of CHOCHO in the aqueous phase.

3.6 CHOCHO contribution to SOA in SMA

To evaluate CHOCHO contribution to SOA formation in the SMA, the relationship between PglySOA and organic aerosol enhancement (ΔOA), normalized with ΔCO to minimize the dilution effect, was analyzed, as was the air mass evolution (Fig. 6), and the background concentrations of OA and CO are 1 µg sm−3 and 140 ppb, respectively, as was the case for the Yellow Sea case in Nault et al. (2018). The PglySOA/ΔCO increases by an average of 3.67 µg sm−3 ppm−1 h−1 for the first 6 equivalent hours under 4.84×106 molec. cm−3 OH (averaged OH concentration over SMA), and the rate of ΔOA/ΔCO growth over that time window is 17.3 µg sm−3 ppmv−1 h−1. Thus, the CHOCHO contribution to SOA formation during the early stage of photochemical processing is estimated to be  20 %. According to Nault et al. (2018), local emissions of short-lived aromatic compounds and semi-volatile and intermediate-volatility organic compounds were the main precursors to SOA, accounting for 70 % of the calculated SOA. During KORUS-AQ, the observationally constrained PglySOA ranges from 0–0.8 µg sm−3 h−1 for individual RFs (shown in Fig. S12), which is comparable to Mexico City (>15 %, Volkamer et al., 2007), the Pearl River Delta (11.3 %, Ling et al., 2020), and the Los Angeles basin (1 %–15 %, Knote et al., 2014) but is higher than in Pasadena (0 %–4 %, Washenfelder et al., 2011).

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Figure 6Photochemical age (Photoage) dependence of dilution corrected (normalized by CO enhancement) (a) PglySOA and (b) OA enhancement over SMA. The square markers and bars are the mean ±1σ standard variation. Normal regression (shown as red line in b) was used to fit the early photochemical state data (Photoage< 6 h). Panel (c) shows the relation between oxalate OA and ODR fit.

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We also estimate the upper limit of oxalate mass yield from CHOCHO over SMA as  10 % based on the oxalate fraction ( 2 %) in OA (Fig. 6c). Oxalate is a major product from glyoxal reactions in clouds (Tan et al., 2009; Ortiz-Montalvo et al., 2014), but a minor product in wet aerosol (Lim et al., 2013). We find oxalate explains only a minor portion of the glyoxal SOA inferred, which is consistent with lower oxalate yields in wet aerosol. We presume our lower yield likely originated from the existence of many possible fates for taken-up CHOCHO, such as oligomerization (Lim et al., 2013) and reaction with sulfate (Lim et al., 2016) and ammonium (Yu et al., 2011; Ortiz-Montalvo et al., 2014), since our analysis is over the SMA area. From our dataset, in the cloud-processing case, analysis was impossible due to not only the low abundance of gas-phase CHOCHO concentrations (below detection limit) but also the sparseness of the sample.

4 Conclusions

In the present study, production rates and loss rates of CHOCHO were simulated using a 0-D box model constrained by high-quality gas, aerosol, and meteorological measurements on board the NASA DC-8 during the KORUS-AQ mission to elucidate the controllers of CHOCHO uptake to aerosols. High CHOCHO concentrations were observed over highly populated cities (i.e., Seoul) and industrial areas, with peak concentration of 1.05 (2.10) ppb for a 1 min (10 s) average. Aromatics were the most important precursors of CHOCHO production (59 %), with toluene being the highest contributor (41 %). We found the importance of the loss path to aerosol (69 %) was greatest, followed those by photolysis (19 %) and OH oxidation (12 %). Comparison of dilution-corrected PglySOA to that of OA growth over the first 6 photochemical hours shows that glySOA contributes to  20 % of SOA formation, and oxalate yield from glySOA was estimated to be less than 10 % in Seoul. The keff,uptake linearly increase with Asurf in Regime I (Asurf<4.9×10-6 cm2 cm−3, γGly,uptake=9.8×10-3) but plateaus in Regime II (Asurf>4.9×10-6 cm2 cm−3), which suggests the limitation in surface uptake approximation. We postulate a hypothesis that this slower uptake under high-aerosol loading conditions is attributed to the increased AN molality, which likely induced high aerosol viscosity and thus slowed down CHOCHO mass transfer to aqueous phase. More experimental studies are needed to elucidate the controlling factors of glyoxal mass transfer into aerosols. We also found light dependence of keff,uptake, suggesting the importance of photochemistry in ambient conditions.

Finally, our work highlights the lack of knowledge required to explain the CHOCHO solubility in real atmospheric circumstances. KH,eff_Gly ( 106 M atm−1) derived from salting-in by AS and AN was  2 orders of magnitude lower than KH,eff_Gly estimated in this study, indicating potential roles of organic compounds in the solubility of CHOCHO. This urges more attention to other various factors in CHOCHO solubility control in addition to the abundance of inorganic salts. Adding more constraints on these factors is important not only for the formation of SOA but also in air mass source tracking from satellites since CHOCHO is one of the two VOC proxies measured from space.

Data availability

DC-8 data created during KORUS-AQ are published at https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/KORUSAQ/DATA01 (Crawford et al., 2021).

Supplement

The supplement related to this article is available online at: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-805-2022-supplement.

Author contributions

DK and KEM designed and executed the study and led the writing of the paper. DK, CC, SJ, KEM, SL, BAN, PCJ, DAD, JCS, JLJ, DRB, AW, AF, JPD, GSD, SEP, SRH, KU, LGH, DJT, and JD provided observational data. RV and CJK contributed to aqueous-phase mechanism model setups and data interpretation. BAN and PCJ ran the E-AIM model. All co-authors contributed with feedback during the development and writing of the study.

Competing interests

The contact author has declared that neither they nor their co-authors have any competing interests.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank all those who participated in the KORUS-AQ campaigns. We thank William H. Brune for the HOx data; Denise D. Montzka and Andrew J. Weinheimer for the NOx, NOy, and O3 data; Michelle J. Kim, Alexander P. Teng, John D. Crounse, and Paul O. Wennberg for HNO3 data; the Bruce E. Anderson group for the measurements from LARGE; and Jens Redemann, Samuel E. LeBlanc, and Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer for the measurements from 4STAR. The PTR-MS instrument team (Philipp Eichler, Lisa Kaser, Tomas Mikoviny, Markus Müller) is acknowledged for their support with fieldwork and data processing. Ionicon Analytik is acknowledged for instrumental support.

Financial support

The Min group for CHOCHO measurements and analysis was supported by Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT (NRF 2019M1A2A2103953). The Jimenez group was supported by NASA 80NSSC18K0630 and NSF AGS-2027252. Rainer Volkamer was supported by the Department of Energy ASR program (award DE-SC0018221). The Armin Wisthaler group was supported from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation, and Technology (bmvit) through the Austrian Space Applications Programme (ASAP) of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

Review statement

This paper was edited by Jason Surratt and reviewed by two anonymous referees.

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CHOCHO was simulated using a 0-D box model constrained by measurements during the KORUS-AQ mission. CHOCHO concentration was high in large cities, aromatics being the most important precursors. Loss path to aerosol was the highest sink, contributing to ~ 20 % of secondary organic aerosol formation. Our work highlights that simple CHOCHO surface uptake approach is valid only for low aerosol conditions and more work is required to understand CHOCHO solubility in high-aerosol conditions.
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