Contributions to OH reactivity from unexplored volatile organic compounds measured by PTR-ToF-MS - A case study in a suburban forest of the Seoul metropolitan area during the Korea-United States Air Quality Study (KORUS-AQ) 2016

We report OH reactivity observations by a chemical ionization mass spectrometer–comparative reactivity method (CIMS-CRM) instrument in a suburban forest of the Seoul metropolitan area (SMA) during the Korea–United States Air Quality Study (KORUS-AQ 2016) from mid-May to mid-June of 2016. A comprehensive observational suite was deployed to quantify reactive trace gases inside of the forest canopy including a high-resolution proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS). An average OH reactivity of 30:75:1 s1 was observed, while the OH reactivity calculated from CO, NOCNO2 (NOx ), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and 14 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was 11:81:0 s1. An analysis of 346 peaks from the PTR-ToF-MS accounted for an additional 6:02:2 s1 of the total measured OH reactivity, leaving 42.0% missing OH reactivity. A series of analyses indicate that the missing OH reactivity most likely comes from VOC oxidation products of both biogenic and anthropogenic origin.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Sanchez, Dianne, Seco, Roger, Gu, Dasa, Guenther, Alex, Mak, John, Lee, Youngjae, Kim, Danbi, Ahn, Joonyoung, Blake, Don, Herndon, Scott, Jeong, Daun, T. Sullivan, John, McGee, Thomas, Park, Rokjin, Kim, Saewung
Other Authors:	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	European Geosciences Union 2021-04-27
Subjects:	Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Atmospheric chemistry, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/344971 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85104997595
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