Secondary organic aerosol formation from the laboratory oxidation of biomass burning emissions by Lim, Christopher Yung-Ta, Hagan, David Henry, Coggon, Matthew M., Koss, Abigail R., Sekimoto, Kanako, de Gouw, Joost, Warneke, Carsten, Cappa, Christopher D., Kroll, Jesse

“…As part of the Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments Experiment (FIREX 2016), we investigated the effect of photochemical aging on biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA) with a focus on fuels from the western United States. Emissions were sampled into a small (150 L) environmental chamber and photochemically aged via the addition of ozone and irradiation by 254 nm light. …”
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OH chemistry of non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) emitted from laboratory and ambient biomass burning smoke: evaluating the influence of furans and oxygenated aromatics on ozone an... by Coggon, Matthew M., Lim, Christopher Yung-Ta, Koss, Abigail R., Sekimoto, Kanako, Yuan, Bin, Gilman, Jessica B., Hagan, David Henry, Selimovic, Vanessa, Zarzana, Kyle J., Brown, Steven S., Roberts, James M., Müller, Markus, Yokelson, Robert, Wisthaler, Armin, Krechmer, Jordan E., Jimenez, Jose L., Cappa, Christopher, Kroll, Jesse, de Gouw, Joost, Warneke, Carsten

“…Based on the decay of primary carbon measured by proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS), it is confirmed that furans and oxygenated aromatics are among the NMOGs emitted from western United States fuel types with the highest reactivities towards OH. …”
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Biomass-burning-derived particles from a wide variety of fuels – Part 2: Effects of photochemical aging on particle optical and chemical properties by Cappa, Christopher D, Lim, Christopher Y, Hagan, David H, Coggon, Matthew, Koss, Abigail, Sekimoto, Kanako, de Gouw, Joost, Onasch, Timothy B, Warneke, Carsten, Kroll, Jesse H

“…We analyze the evolution of the optical properties and chemical composition of particles produced from combustion of a wide variety of biomass fuels, largely from the western United States. The smoke is photochemically aged in a reaction chamber over atmospheric-equivalent timescales ranging from 0.25 to 8 d. …”
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