Modeling the formation and aging of secondary organic aerosols in the Los Angeles metropolitan region during the CalNex 2010 field campaign

Patrick L Hayes1, Prettiny K Ma2, Jose L Jimenez3, Yunliang Zhao4, Allen L Robinson4, Annmarie G Carlton5, Kirk R Baker6, Ravan Ahmadov7, Rebecca A Washenfelder7,8, Sergio Luiz Alvarez9, Bernhard Rappenglück10, Jessica Gilman7, William Kuster7, Joost A de Gouw7, Andre S Prevot11, Peter Zotter12, Sönke Szidat13, Tadeusz E Kleindienst14 and John H Offenberg6, (1)Université de Montréal, Department of Chemistry, Montréal, QC, Canada, (2)University of Montreal, Chemistry, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (5)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (6)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (7)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (10)University of Houston, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (11)Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland, (12)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, (13)University of Bern, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland, (14)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States