Table 4. Observed Organic Nitrate Yields and Gas/Aerosol Partitioning, and Nitrogen Balancea.
BVOC | molar organic nitrate yield (Δ[ANs + PNs]/ Δ[VOC]) | fraction of organonitrates in aerosol phase (Δ[ANs + PNs]aero/Δ[ANs + PNs] | organonitrate fraction of total aerosol mass (MANsaero/Mo) | N-balance: NO2 release (Δ[NO2]/ −Δ[N2O5]) | N-balance: organonitrate formation (Δ[ANs + PNs]/–Δ[N2O5]) |
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β-pinene | 0.22 | 0.76 | 0.56 | 1.04 1.15 | 0.08 0.23 |
Δ-3-carene | 0.77 | 0.50 | 0.56 | 1.14 | 0.22 |
limonene | 0.54 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.76 0.96 | 0.31 0.41 |
β-caryophyllene | n/a | 1 | 0.80 | n/ab | n/ab |
α-pinene | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 1.54 1.75 | 0.03 0.10 |
BVOC-based molar organic nitrate yield, aerosol fraction of organonitrates, and organonitrate fraction of total aerosol mass are all evaluated at 2 h after chamber experiment initiation (data are all from the high-concentration experiments, when the TD-LIF instrument was available); N2O5-based NO2 and ANs + PNs production are evaluated at 30 min after chamber experiment initiation. For β-pinene, limonene, and α-pinene, NO3 decays slowly enough that this N balance analysis can be reliably repeated at 2 h. These are the numbers reported in italics.
Several parameters are not available for β-caryophyllene, because the N2O5 decay was very rapid and not well-characterized.