Formation and chemical properties of tar balls from biomass burning


Kouji Adachi1, Takeshi Kinase2, Arthur J Sedlacek III3, Lawrence I Kleinman4, Timothy Bruce Onasch5, Stephen R. Springston3 and Peter R Buseck6, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Atmosph Sci Div, Upton, NY, United States, (5)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (6)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States