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Measurement of peroxycarboxylic nitric anhydrides (PANs) during the ITCT 2K2 aircraft intensive experiment
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory Aeronomy Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Measurements of peroxycarboxylic nitric anhydrides (PANs), peroxyacetic nitric anhydride (CH3C(O)OONO2; PAN), and peroxypropionic nitric anhydride (CH3CH2C(O)OONO2; PPN) were made in the spring of 2002, off the west coast of North America, as part of the Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation 2002 (ITCT 2K2) project. Long-range transport of Asian emissions was observed in which PAN and PPN mixing ratios were as high as 650 pptv and 90 pptv, respectively. Moreover, these two species constituted as much as 80% of the odd nitrogen (NO y ) in those air masses, and median PAN/NO y was more than 60% at altitudes of 4 km and above. Systematic differences in the ratio of PPN to PAN were observed in air masses that had been impacted by Asian urban emissions relative to those impacted by biomass burning. Mixing ratios of PAN and PPN were also elevated in the marine boundary layer close to the west coast of California, possibly because of photochemical production driven by maritime NO x emissions.
Received 27 April 2004; accepted 4 October 2004; published 3 December 2004.
Citation: (2004), Measurement of peroxycarboxylic nitric anhydrides (PANs) during the ITCT 2K2 aircraft intensive experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D23S21, doi:10.1029/2004JD004960.
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