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Simulation of organic aerosol formation during the CalNex study: updated mobile emissions and secondary organic aerosol parameterization for intermediate-volatility organic compounds

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2019-11-01
This data documents the results of chamber modeling and chemical transport modeling of the contribution of Intermediate Volatility Organic Compounds to mobile-source organic aerosol formation in California. The data show that IVOCs make up a significant fraction of the total source of secondary organic aerosol in urban environments and that mobile sources make up only about one third to half of the total IVOC emissions. Other urban sources of IVOCs were explored. These data are visualized and presented in the figures published in a peer-reviewed manuscript (with corresponding title) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The raw CMAQ output data are backed up and preserved on the ATMOS supercomputing system at the National Computing Center in Durham, North Carolina. The file location on the ASM server is: /asm/MOD3DEV/bmurphy/Models/cmaq/CMAQ_Ben/Projects/quanyang_181212/data. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Lu, Q., B. Murphy, M. Qin, P.J. Adams, Y. Zhao, H. Pye, C. Efstathiou, C. Allen, and A. Robinson. Simulation of organic aerosol formation during the CalNex study: updated mobile emissions and secondary organic aerosol parameterization for intermediate-volatility organic compounds. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Copernicus Publications, Katlenburg-Lindau, GERMANY, 20(7): 4313–4332, (2020).

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