Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Large contribution of fossil-derived components to aqueous secondary organic aerosols in China

  • Buqing Xu,
  • Gan Zhang,
  • Örjan Gustafsson,
  • Kimitaka Kawamura,
  • Jun Li,
  • August Andersson,
  • Srinivas Bikkina,
  • Bhagawati Kunwar,
  • Ambarish Pokhrel,
  • Guangcai Zhong,
  • Shizhen Zhao,
  • Jing Li,
  • Chen Huang,
  • Zhineng Cheng,
  • Sanyuan Zhu,
  • Pingan Peng,
  • Guoying Sheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32863-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Isotope fingerprinting is used to track precursor sources and formation pathways of aqueous SOA, such as oxalic acid, finding that fossil fuel precursors contributions have largely been underestimated.