Towards an improved representation of organic aerosol (OA) in the remote troposphere: Chemical removal and aging of OA during the ATom mission as a function of photochemical age


Pedro Campuzano-Jost1, Dr. Benjamin Nault, Ph.D.2,3, Jason Clay Schroder3,4, Doug A Day4,5, Jose L Jimenez6,7, Joseph M Katich8,9, Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD9, Nicola J Blake10, Donald Ray Blake10, Roisin Commane11, Bruce C Daube12, Steven C Wofsy13, Rebecca S Hornbrook14, Eric C Apel15, Katherine Travis16, Colette L Heald17, Simone Tilmes18, Huisheng Bian19, Peter Richard Colarco20, Mian Chin20, Eric A Ray9, Steven Pawson21 and Paul A Newman20, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, United States, (11)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (12)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (13)Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (14)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling, Boulder, United States, (16)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (17)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (18)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (21)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States