Supporting Information of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in aerosols over the central Himalayas along two south-north transects Peng Fei Chen1,5, Chao Liu Li1, Shi Chang Kang2,3*, Maheswar Rupakheti4, Arnico K Panday6, Fang Ping Yan2,5, Quan Lian Li2, Qiang Gong Zhang1,3, Jun Ming Guo1,5, Dipesh Rupakheti1,5, Wei Luo7 1Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou 730000, China 3Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; 4Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam 14467, Germany 5University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China 6International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal 7State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China Correspondence to: S. Kang (
[email protected]) Text SI-1 Sample extraction and analysis Text SI-2 Quality control Table SI-1 Percentage contribution (%) of each species to total PAHs in the atmosphere over the Himalayas. Text SI-1 Sample extraction and analysis A quarter of each filter was cut into pieces, placed into a glass tube, and immersed in 20 mL of dichloromethane (DCM) and n-hexane (1:1). The extraction was performed by sonication twice for 30 min at 27 °C. Every single sample was spiked with deuterated PAHs (naphthalene-d8, acenaphthene-d10, phenanthrene-d10, chrysene-d12, and perylene-d12) as recovery surrogates.