A missing sink for gas-phase glyoxal in Mexico City: Formation of secondary organic aerosol

Details A missing sink for gas-phase glyoxal in Mexico City: Formation of secondary organic aerosol A missing sink for gas-phase glyoxal in Mexico City: Formation of secondary organic aerosol

Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3419807v&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 19, CiteID L19807

Physics

87

Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Constituent Sources And Sinks, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution: Urban And Regional (0305, 0478, 4251), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere: Composition And Chemistry

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The sources of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are highly uncertain. Direct measurements of gas-phase glyoxal in Mexico City are compared to experimentally constrained model predictions. Observed glyoxal concentrations are found significantly below those predicted. Additional glyoxal sources are likely and would increase these differences; an additional glyoxal sink must be operative. The model-measurement differences are fully resolved by a sink parameterized from aerosol parameters as either (1) irreversible uptake to aerosol surface area (uptake coefficient γ ~ 0.0037); reversible partitioning to (2) aerosol liquid water (effective Henry's law coefficient H eff ~ 4 × 109 M atm-1), or (3) the oxygenated organic aerosol phase (activity coefficient ζ ~ 6 × 10-9) (4) a combination of the above. The missing sink has the potential to determine 70-95% of the atmospheric lifetime of glyoxal. The glyoxal imbalance corresponds to several μg m-3 of equivalent SOA mass, and can explain at least 15% of the SOA formation in Mexico City.

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