Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

It remains unclear how urban emissions influence the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), including in the Amazon forest. Here, the authors simulate the formation of SOAs in the Amazon using a high-resolution regional chemical transport model. They find that urban emissions of NOx from Man...

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Main Authors: Manish Shrivastava, Meinrat O. Andreae, Paulo Artaxo, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Larry K. Berg, Joel Brito, Joseph Ching, Richard C. Easter, Jiwen Fan, Jerome D. Fast, Zhe Feng, Jose D. Fuentes, Marianne Glasius, Allen H. Goldstein, Eliane Gomes Alves, Helber Gomes, Dasa Gu, Alex Guenther, Shantanu H. Jathar, Saewung Kim, Ying Liu, Sijia Lou, Scot T. Martin, V. Faye McNeill, Adan Medeiros, Suzane S. de Sá, John E. Shilling, Stephen R. Springston, R. A. F. Souza, Joel A. Thornton, Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Lindsay D. Yee, Rita Ynoue, Rahul A. Zaveri, Alla Zelenyuk, Chun Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08909-4

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08909-4

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