Aerosols
Aerosol water alone cannot fix organic-aerosol bias
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Adding aerosol liquid water to SOA partitioning without non-ideality overpredicts nighttime carbon; daytime OA in the southeast US still needs extra sources.
Key findings
The non-ideal (γ ≠ 1) case cut OC bias to −4, −10, and −2% at IMPROVE, CSN, and SEARCH. Assuming ideality overestimates nighttime aerosol water and carbon. Water-soluble OA was ~90% of total OA in the southeast US summer, but daytime OA remains underpredicted even with water in the partitioning medium.
Methodology
Authors updated CMAQ over the eastern United States for June 2013 (SOAS) so semivolatile SOA could interact with aerosol water, including organic-phase water uptake and a non-ideal activity-coefficient case, then compared OC with IMPROVE, CSN, and SEARCH.
Limitations
The work is one summer over the eastern US; it does not identify the missing daytime SOA precursors, and POA is still overestimated by about a factor of two, compensating some SOA underestimate.
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