Articles | Volume 26, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-8875-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-8875-2026
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24 Jun 2026
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Influence of tropospheric temperature on the formation and aging of secondary organic aerosol from biogenic vapor mixtures

Linyu Gao, Stella E. I. Manavi, Claudia Mohr, Junwei Song, Cheng Wu, Thomas Leisner, Spyros N. Pandis, and Harald Saathoff

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Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) are long known to be of great importance to atmospheric composition and climate, and it has recently become established that atmospheric concentrations depend on not just the chemical processes involving individual precursor VOCs, but also interactions between different VOCs and their oxidation products. Gao et al. studies two common biogenic VOCs (isoprene and α-pinene) and investigates the temperature dependency of these interaction effects on SOA yields. By projecting these results over the temperatures typically experienced by a tropospheric airmass, they are able to show that not considering this temperature effect would lead to a negative biases in SOA prediction in Europe.
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We investigate how temperature (213–313K) affects secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles derived from isoprene and α-pinene mixtures. Isoprene's suppression on α-pinene dimer formation varied with temperatures. Particles formed at higher temperatures are more oxidized yet more volatile than those formed at lower temperatures and then warmed. This work highlights the need to consider both temperature and biogenic vapor interaction to accurately describe SOA formation, aging, and global burden.
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