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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7917-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7917-2016
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29 Jun 2016
Research article |  | 29 Jun 2016

Rethinking the global secondary organic aerosol (SOA) budget: stronger production, faster removal, shorter lifetime

Alma Hodzic, Prasad S. Kasibhatla, Duseong S. Jo, Christopher D. Cappa, Jose L. Jimenez, Sasha Madronich, and Rokjin J. Park

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The global budget and spatial distribution of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are highly uncertain in chemistry-climate models, which reflects our inability to characterize all phases of the OA lifecycle. We have performed global model simulations with the newly proposed formation and removal processes (photolysis and heterogeneous chemistry) and shown that SOA is a far more dynamic system, with 4 times stronger production rates and more efficient removal mechanisms, than assumed in models.
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