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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 5105-5111Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es103944a
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- University of Rochester EPA PM Center [R827354]
- Electric Power Research Institute
- National Science Foundation
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Organosulfate species have recently been identified as a potentially significant class of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) species, yet little is known about their behavior in the atmosphere. In this work, organosulfates were observed in individual ambient aerosols using single particle mass spectrometry in Atlanta, GA during the 2002 Aerosol Nucleation and Characterization Experiment (ANARChE) and the 2008 August Mini-Intensive Gas and Aerosol Study (AMIGAS). Organosulfates derived from biogenically produced isoprene were detected as deprotonated molecular ions in negative-ion spectra measured by aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry; comparison to high-resolution mass spectrometry data obtained from filter samples corroborated the peak assignments. The size-resolved, chemical composition measurements revealed that organosulfate species were mostly detected in submicrometer aerosols and across a range of aerosols from different sources, consistent with secondary reaction products. Detection of organosulfates in a large fraction of negative-ion ambient spectra -ca. 90-95% during ANARChE and similar to 65% of submicrometer particles in AMIGAS highlights the ubiquity of organosulfate species in the ambient aerosols of biogenically influenced urban environments.
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