Thermal decomposition in thermal desorption instruments: importance of thermogram measurements for analysis of secondary organic aerosol

Harald Stark1,2, Reddy L. N. Yatavelli3, Samantha Thompson2,4, Hyungu Kang2,5, Jordan Krechmer1, Joel Kimmel6,7, Brett B Palm8, Weiwei Hu8, P. Hayes9, Doug A Day4,10, Pedro Campuzano-Jost11, Penglin Ye12, Manjula R Canagaratna13, John Toulson Jayne6, Douglas R Worsnop13 and Jose L Jimenez4,14, (1)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)California Air Resources Board, El Monte, CA, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, department of chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (7)Tofwerk AG, Thun, Switzerland, (8)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Université de Montréal, Département de chimie, Montreal, QC, Canada, (10)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (11)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (12)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (13)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (14)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States