AAAR 33rd Annual Conference
October 20 - October 24, 2014
Rosen Shingle Creek
Orlando, Florida, USA
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New Particle Formation in the Volatility Basis Set
NEIL DONAHUE, Wayne Chuang, Ismael Kenneth Ortega Colomer, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract Number: 500 Working Group: Advances in the Physics and Chemistry of New Particle Formation and Growth
Abstract Oxidized organic compounds can be involved in all portions of new particle formation and growth, and there is compelling evidence that many particle formation events in the atmosphere involve oxidized organics. We have added new findings regarding production of extremely low volatility organic compounds (ELVOCS) from gas-phse oxidation of organic compounds as well as calculations of the stability of small complexes to parameterized new-particle formation and growth within the framework of the volatility basis set (VBS). Here we shall present simulations of formation and growth events both for ambient (boreal forest) and lab (the CLOUD experiment at CERN) conditions.