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Ozonolysis of beta-pinene: temperature dependence of secondary organic aerosol mass fraction. 2008

Ravikant Pathak, and Neil M Donahue, and Spyros N Pandis

Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

The SOA formation from beta-pinene ozonolysis at modest precursor concentrations (2-40 ppb) was investigated in the temperature range of 0-40 degrees C. The presence of inert seeds and high ozone concentrations is necessary to minimize losses of semivolatile vapors to the walls of the smog chamber. beta-pinene secondary organic aerosol production increases significantly with decreasing temperature. An increase by a factor of 2-3, depending on the reacted beta-pinene concentration, was observed as the temperature decreased from 40 to 0 degrees C. This increase appearsto be due mainly to the shifting of partitioning of the semivolatile SOA componentstoward the particulate phase and not to a change of the beta-pinene product distribution with temperature. The measurements are used to develop a new temperature-dependent parametrization for the four-component basis-set. The parametrization predicts much higher SOA production for beta-pinene ozonolysis for typical atmospheric conditions than the values that have been suggested by previous studies.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010126	Ozone	The unstable triatomic form of oxygen, O3. It is a powerful oxidant that is produced for various chemical and industrial uses. Its production is also catalyzed in the ATMOSPHERE by ULTRAVIOLET RAY irradiation of oxygen or other ozone precursors such as VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS and NITROGEN OXIDES. About 90% of the ozone in the atmosphere exists in the stratosphere (STRATOSPHERIC OZONE).	Ground Level Ozone,Low Level Ozone,Tropospheric Ozone,Level Ozone, Ground,Level Ozone, Low,Ozone, Ground Level,Ozone, Low Level,Ozone, Tropospheric
D010316	Particle Size	Relating to the size of solids.	Particle Sizes,Size, Particle,Sizes, Particle
D000081008	Bicyclic Monoterpenes	Monoterpenes containing two ring structures that are joined either by bridgehead carbon atoms or fused ring structure.	Camphene Derivatives,Camphenes,Carane Derivatives,Caranes,Pinane Derivatives,Pinanes,Thujane Derivatives,Thujanes,Derivatives, Camphene,Derivatives, Carane,Derivatives, Pinane,Derivatives, Thujane,Monoterpenes, Bicyclic
D000336	Aerosols	Colloids with a gaseous dispersing phase and either liquid (fog) or solid (smoke) dispersed phase; used in fumigation or in inhalation therapy; may contain propellant agents.	Aerosol
D000393	Air Pollutants	Any substance in the air which could, if present in high enough concentration, harm humans, animals, vegetation or materials. Substances include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; and volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS.	Air Pollutant,Air Pollutants, Environmental,Environmental Air Pollutants,Environmental Pollutants, Air,Air Environmental Pollutants,Pollutant, Air,Pollutants, Air,Pollutants, Air Environmental,Pollutants, Environmental Air
D001643	Bridged Bicyclo Compounds	Saturated alicyclic hydrocarbon molecules consisting of two rings that have two non-adjacent atoms in common.	Bicyclo Compounds,Bicyclo Compounds, Bridged
D012905	Smog	A mixture of smoke and fog polluting the atmosphere. (Dorland, 27th ed)
D013696	Temperature	The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms.	Temperatures
D055549	Volatile Organic Compounds	Organic compounds that have a relatively high VAPOR PRESSURE at room temperature.	Volatile Organic Compound,Compound, Volatile Organic,Compounds, Volatile Organic,Organic Compound, Volatile,Organic Compounds, Volatile
D039821	Monoterpenes	Compounds with a core of 10 carbons generally formed via the mevalonate pathway from the combination of 3,3-dimethylallyl pyrophosphate and isopentenyl pyrophosphate. They are cyclized and oxidized in a variety of ways. Due to the low molecular weight many of them exist in the form of essential oils (OILS, VOLATILE).	Monoterpene,Monoterpenoid,Monoterpenoids