Sara D. Forestieri

TL;DR: This work describes a newly developed approach for reproducing the chemical complexity of SSA in a laboratory setting, comprising a unique ocean-atmosphere facility equipped with actual breaking waves and shows SSA size and chemical mixing state are acutely sensitive to the aerosol production mechanism, as well as to the type of biological species present.

TL;DR: In this paper, correlations between oxidation level and optical properties of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) have been examined, and SOA chemical composition was characterized with a time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer.

TL;DR: Comparison with literature studies suggests that under typical polluted conditions the effect of NOx on SOA absorption is small, and SOA may contribute significantly to atmospheric BrC, with the magnitude dependent on both precursor type and oxidation level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a continuous flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC) to measure surface tension near the point of activation of sea spray aerosol (SSA) mimics composed of NaCl coated by varying amounts of oleic acid, palmitic acid or myristic acid.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of real-time instruments was used to sample vehicle emissions at the California Air Resources Board Haagen-Smit facility, and an Aerodyne high resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-MS) characterized the realtime behavior of the nonrefractory organic and inorganic particulate matter (PM) in vehicle emissions.