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Research article
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18 Sep 2025
Research article |
| 18 Sep 2025
| 18 Sep 2025
Evaluating NOx fate and organic nitrate chemistry from α-pinene oxidation using stable oxygen and nitrogen isotopes
Wendell W. Walters
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter St, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, 85 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Masayuki Takeuchi
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
now at: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 1111 Engineering Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Danielle E. Blum
Department of Chemistry, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Gamze Eris
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
David Tanner
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Weiqi Xu
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
Jean Rivera-Rios
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
now at: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, 123 Bevier Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Fobang Liu
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
Tianchang Xu
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Greg Huey
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Justin B. Min
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Rodney Weber
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Nga L. Ng
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Meredith G. Hastings
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, 85 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, P.O. Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Data sets
Data and Figure Codes for, "Evaluating NOₓ Fate and Organic Nitrate Chemistry from α-Pinene Oxidation Using Stable Oxygen and Nitrogen Isotopes" Wendell Walters https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15616524
Model code and software
Box Model Simulations for NOx/alpha-pinene Chamber Experiments Wendell Walters https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15615850
Short summary
We studied how chemicals released from plants and pollution interact in the atmosphere, affecting air quality and climate. By combining laboratory experiments and chemistry models, we tracked unique chemical fingerprints to understand how nitrogen compounds transform to form particles in the air. Our findings help explain the role of these reactions in pollution and provide tools to improve predictions for cleaner air and better climate policies.
We studied how chemicals released from plants and pollution interact in the atmosphere,...
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