Experiment Set: Terpene nighttime chemistry

Experiment Set: Terpene nighttime chemistry
Name: Terpene nighttime chemistry
Time format and units: HH:MM

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Nguyen Group

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Tran's big bag of air

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A series of experiments examining product yields and SOA formation from terpene + NO3 reactions under conditions designed to mimic the nighttime atmosphere of the Southeast US in the summer. Two types of experiments are included: (1) those in which the chemistry is initiated by additions of O3 + NO2 + H2O2, which together provide conditions closely resembling the ambient atmosphere at night (i.e., with NO3 + terpene as the dominant oxidation reaction but some O3 + terpene contribution, and with RO2 + HO2 as the dominant peroxy radical fate but an appreciable contribution from RO2 + RO2), and (2) equivalent experiments performed without NO2 as a control, so as to isolate the terpene + O3 chemistry. SOA yield experiments are performed at approximately 60% RH with hydrated ammonium sulfate seed aerosol. Filter collection experiments are performed without ammonium sulfate seed aerosol, using very high terpene loadings so as to acquire enough material for offline analysis, and using N2O5 as the NO3 precursor. Data include RH/T, particle size distributions measured by SMPS (including wall-loss corrected and un-corrected data), gas-phase organic species monitored by CF3O- CIMS, and O3 & NOx concentrations. CIMS computer was struggling during this experiment set, so some experiments may be missing data when it abruptly stopped.

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