Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Terpene emissions from boreal wetlands can initiate stronger atmospheric new particle formation than boreal forests

  • Heikki Junninen,
  • Lauri Ahonen,
  • Federico Bianchi,
  • Lauriane Quéléver,
  • Simon Schallhart,
  • Lubna Dada,
  • Hanna Elina Manninen,
  • Katri Leino,
  • Janne Lampilahti,
  • Stephany Buenrostro Mazon,
  • Pekka Rantala,
  • Mari Räty,
  • Jenni Kontkanen,
  • Sara Negri,
  • Diego Aliaga,
  • Olga Garmash,
  • Pavel Alekseychik,
  • Helina Lipp,
  • Kalju Tamme,
  • Janne Levula,
  • Mikko Sipilä,
  • Mikael Ehn,
  • Douglas Worsnop,
  • Sergej Zilitinkevich,
  • Ivan Mammarella,
  • Janne Rinne,
  • Timo Vesala,
  • Tuukka Petäjä,
  • Veli-Matti Kerminen,
  • Markku Kulmala

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00406-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Boreal wetlands emit terpenes which initiate atmospheric new particle formation to an even greater degree than is usually seen over boreal forests, according to direct measurements of volatile organic compounds from a Finnish wetland.