Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 2901–2920, 2016 www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/2901/2016/ doi:10.5194/acp-16-2901-2016 © Author(s) 2016. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Urban stress-induced biogenic VOC emissions and SOA-forming potentials in Beijing Andrea Ghirardo1,*, Junfei Xie2,3,4,*, Xunhua Zheng2, Yuesi Wang2, Rüdiger Grote5, Katja Block1, Jürgen Wildt6, Thomas Mentel7, Astrid Kiendler-Scharr7, Mattias Hallquist8, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl5, and Jörg-Peter Schnitzler1 1Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Environmental Simulation (EUS) at the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology (BIOP), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany 2State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP-CAS), Beijing 100029, PR China 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China 4Beijing Institute of Landscape Architecture, Beijing 100102, PR China 5Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 6Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum, 52425 Jülich, Germany 7Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-8), Forschungszentrum, 52425 Jülich, Germany 8Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden *These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence to: Andrea Ghirardo (
[email protected]) Received: 6 July 2015 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 27 August 2015 Revised: 23 December 2015 – Accepted: 3 February 2016 – Published: 7 March 2016 Abstract. Trees can significantly impact the urban air chem- ical impact on SOA mass formation potential in Beijing. istry by the uptake and emission of reactive biogenic volatile Constitutive and stress-induced BVOCs might produce sim- organic compounds (BVOCs), which are involved in ozone ilar amounts of secondary aerosol in Beijing.