Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11025–11040, 2017 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11025-2017 © Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Exploring sources of biogenic secondary organic aerosol compounds using chemical analysis and the FLEXPART model Johan Martinsson1,2, Guillaume Monteil3, Moa K. Sporre4, Anne Maria Kaldal Hansen5, Adam Kristensson1, Kristina Eriksson Stenström1, Erik Swietlicki1, and Marianne Glasius5 1Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 22100, Lund, Sweden 2Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Ecology Building, 22362, Lund, Sweden 3Department of Physical Geography, Lund University, Lund, P.O. Box 118, 22100, Lund, Sweden 4Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1022, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway 5Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark Correspondence to: Johan Martinsson (
[email protected]) Received: 1 February 2017 – Discussion started: 8 February 2017 Revised: 28 June 2017 – Accepted: 24 July 2017 – Published: 18 September 2017 Abstract. Molecular tracers in secondary organic aerosols 1 Introduction (SOAs) can provide information on origin of SOA, as well as regional scale processes involved in their formation. In Carbonaceous aerosols are abundant in ambient air around this study 9 carboxylic acids, 11 organosulfates (OSs) and the world and account for 40 % of the European PM2:5 mass 2 nitrooxy organosulfates (NOSs) were determined in daily (Putaud et al., 2010). The carbonaceous aerosol fraction has aerosol particle filter samples from Vavihill measurement severe effects on human health as well as a profound effect station in southern Sweden during June and July 2012.