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Optical properties and aging of light-absorbing secondary organic aerosol
Jiumeng Liu1, Peng Lin2, Alexander Laskin2, Julia Laskin3, Shawn M. Kathmann3, Matthew Wise4, Ryan Caylor4, Felisha Imholt4, Vanessa Selimovic4,a, and John E. Shilling1
1Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacic Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
2Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacic Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
3Physical Sciences Division, Pacic Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
4Math and Science Department, Concordia University, Portland, OR, USA
anow at: Department of Chemistry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA Correspondence to: John E. Shilling ([email protected])
Received: 8 June 2016 Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 13 June 2016 Revised: 18 September 2016 Accepted: 19 September 2016 Published: 14 October 2016
Abstract. The light-absorbing organic aerosol (OA) commonly referred to as brown carbon (BrC) has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of its potential to affect atmospheric radiation balance, especially in the ultra-violet region and thus impact photochemical processes. A growing amount of data has indicated that BrC is prevalent in the atmosphere, which has motivated numerous laboratory and eld studies; however, our understanding of the relationship between the chemical composition and optical properties of BrC remains limited. We conducted chamber experiments to investigate the effect of various volatile organic carbon (VOC) precursors, NOx concentrations, photolysis time, and relative humidity (RH) on the light absorption of selected secondary organic aerosols (SOA). Light absorption of chamber-generated SOA samples, especially aromatic SOA, was found to increase with NOx concentration, at moderate RH, and for the shortest photolysis aging times. The highest mass absorption coefcient (MAC) value is observed from toluene SOA products formed under high-NOx conditions at moderate RH, in which nitro-aromatics were previously identied as the major light-absorbing compounds. BrC light absorption is observed to decrease with photolysis time, correlated with a decline of the organic nitrate fraction of SOA.SOA formed from mixtures of aromatics and isoprene absorb less visible (Vis) and ultraviolet (UV) light than SOA formed from aromatic precursors alone on a mass basis. However, the mixed SOA absorption was underestimated when optical properties were predicted using a two-product SOA forma-
tion model, as done in many current climate models. Further investigation, including analysis on detailed mechanisms, are required to explain the discrepancy.
1 Introduction
Climate forcing by various atmospheric components has been intensely investigated over the last few decades but signicant uncertainties still exist (IPCC, 2013). One of the largest uncertainties comes from the role of carbonaceous aerosols, including black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC). Black carbon is formally dened as an ideally light-absorbing substance composed of carbon (Petzold et al., 2013) with strong absorption across a wide spectrum of visible wavelengths, which is caused by a signi-cant, wavelength-independent imaginary part k (i.e., 0.79;
Bond et al., 2013) of the refractive index. BC has long been known as the strongest light-absorbing aerosol in the visible wavelengths (e.g., Bond et al., 2013). On the other hand, OC has been treated as a scattering species, and only a few recent global modeling studies have focused on the radiative forcing by absorbing OC (G. Lin et al., 2014; Feng et al., 2013;Chung et al., 2012). Light-absorbing organic aerosol (OA) are collectively called brown carbon (BrC) (Laskin et al., 2015; Moise et al., 2015; Andreae and Gelencsr, 2006).In contrast to BC, the imaginary refractive index of BrC has stronger wavelength dependence ( 2 6) that in-
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creases towards shorter visible and ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths. This broad absorption band in the blue/violet region of the spectrum gives BrC its eponymous yellow or brown color (Alexander et al., 2008; Andreae and Gelencsr, 2006; Lukcs et al., 2007). BrC has been widely ob-served in many environments, including urban environments largely impacted by anthropogenic emissions (Zhang et al., 2013; Du et al., 2014), biomass burning plumes (Lack et al., 2012, 2013; Forrister et al., 2015), over the ocean (Bikkina and Sarin, 2013), rainwater (Kieber et al., 2006), and in the troposphere (Liu et al., 2014; Alexander et al., 2008).
A variety of studies have investigated sources of BrC in both the laboratory and in the eld. Incomplete and smoldering combustion of hydrocarbons, especially those associated with biomass burning, is known to directly produce particulate BrC (Hoffer et al., 2006; Hecobian et al., 2010; Lack et al., 2013; Desyaterik et al., 2013; Chakrabarty et al., 2010;Kirchstetter and Thatcher, 2012; Mohr et al., 2013). There is also evidence based on ambient studies of a secondary BrC source (Duarte et al., 2005) and laboratory studies show formation of chromophores (components of molecules that absorb light) through a variety of mechanisms, including photooxidation of aromatics (Lambe et al., 2013; P. F. Liu et al., 2015), ozonolysis of terpenes subsequently aged in the presence of ammonium ions and humidity (Bones et al., 2010; Nguyen et al., 2013; Laskin et al., 2014; Updyke et al., 2012), and a variety of additional aqueous phase reactions, such as lignin (Hoffer et al., 2006) and isoprene oxidation (Limbeck et al., 2003), reactions of carbonyls (e.g., glyoxal, methyglyoxal) in acidic solutions (Sareen et al., 2010), with amino acids (De Haan et al., 2009), amines (De Haan et al., 2009; Powelson et al., 2014; Zarzana et al., 2012), or ammonium salts (Sareen et al., 2010; Lin et al., 2015a;Galloway et al., 2009; Kampf et al., 2012; Shapiro et al., 2009). Among those studies, it is suggested that the chemical and optical properties of laboratory-generated secondary organic aerosols (SOA) might be inuenced by a variety of factors, including the composition of the volatile organic carbon (VOC) precursor, oxidation chemistry, relative humidity (RH), and potentially aging at longer timescales (i.e., in-particle reactions and photobleaching). Particularly, SOA aged in the presence of dissolved ammonium has been shown to produce BrC efciently, which may contribute to aerosol optical density in regions with elevated concentrations of ammonium salts (i.e., Updyke et al., 2012).
This study focuses on measuring light absorption by laboratory-generated SOA that simulate both urban and remote environments. Four VOCs representative of biogenic and anthropogenic emission are chosen as SOA precursors in this study. Biogenic VOCs selected include isoprene and -pinene, of which isoprene is the most abundant biogenic non-methane hydrocarbon emitted into the atmosphere (Guenther et al., 2006), while -pinene accounts for approximately 40 % of global monoterpene (C10H16) emissions (Guenther et al., 2012). For anthropogenic VOCs, we se-
lected trimethylbenzene (TMB) and toluene, the photooxidation of which in the presence of NOx is a major source of anthropogenic SOA (Ng et al., 2007; Kleindienst et al., 2004; Henze et al., 2008). Four different types of experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of (1) NOx levels,(2) VOC precursors, (3) photolysis time, and (4) RH on SOA light absorption. We compare the UVVis absorption light absorption of these SOA samples extracted in both water and methanol.
2 Experimental methods
Experiments were performed in the indoor 10.6 m3 Teon chamber at the Pacic Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) operating in batch mode where a discrete quantity of a VOC is introduced into the chamber and allowed to react with the gas-phase oxidants (Liu et al., 2012). The Teon chamber was ushed continuously with dry puried air until particle concentrations were less than 5 cm3 prior to all experiments. For each experiment, a measured amount of VOC was injected into a glass bulb with a syringe, evaporated with gentle heating, and transferred to the chamber in a ow of puried air. After the VOC injection, 0.5 mL of H2O2 solution (Sigma-Aldrich, 50 wt % in H2O) was injected into the chamber in the same manner. Humidity was controlled by passing pure air at a variable ow rate through pure water (18.2 M[Omega1] cm, < 5 ppbv TOC) with a HEPA lter downstream of the bubbler to remove any contaminant particles. In experiments in which NOx were present, NO was injected from a gas cylinder containing a known NO concentration (500 ppm, Matheson Tri-Gas) with ows regulated by mass ow controllers. After all components were injected and well mixed in the chamber, UV lights were turned on to initiate photooxidation. The UV ux in the chamber, averaged JNO2 = 0.16 min1, was measured continuously by a
radiometer that is calibrated to an equivalent photolysis rate of NO2 and suspended in the center of the chamber. Measurements of JNO2 using the photostationary state method were in agreement with the radiometer measurements (Leighton, 1961).
During the experiments, a suite of online instruments were used to characterize the gas- and particle-phase composition. The mixing ratios of the hydrocarbons were continuously monitored with an Ionicon proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS). The mass loading of the aerosol particles was measured using an Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-ight mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) (DeCarlo et al., 2006), while the number and volume concentrations were measured with a TSI scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS). An NO/NO2/NOx analyzer (Thermo Environmental Instruments model 42c) was used to measure the concentration of NO and NOx. A UV absorption O3 analyzer (Thermo Environmental Instruments model 49C) allowed for the measurement of O3 concentration.
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tion of isoprene reaction products. We employ a two-product model to describe the partitioning of organic mass between aromatic- and isoprene-derived SOA (Pankow, 1994; Odum et al., 1996). SOA yield parameters for pure compounds are determined by tting real-time batch-mode data as described in the literature (Presto and Donahue, 2006). In the mixed-precursor experiments, the PTR-MS data are used to determine the amount each precursor reacted during the lter collection periods. Then, the pure compound yield parameterizations are used to calculate the relative fractions of the isoprene- and aromatic-derived SOA collected on the lter.The calculation assumes that all SOA components are mutually miscible and reproduced the measured SOA mass with a difference of less than 10 % (Table S2). These fractions are then used along with the optical properties of the single-precursor SOA to predict the optical properties of the mixed aerosol.
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Effects of VOC types and NOx levels
The wavelength-dependent MAC values for SOA derived from four selected precursor VOCs are plotted in Fig. 1. In general, the shapes of the spectra are characteristic of typical atmospheric BrC materials, with relatively higher absorption in the UV range (i.e., Hecobian et al., 2010; Chen and Bond, 2010). Figure 2 shows a comparison of the MAC at 365 nm among four different SOA samples (isoprene, -pinene, TMB and toluene) produced under NOx-free and high-NOx conditions.
The MAC values of isoprene SOA are close to the LOD in the 300700 nm wavelength range and there is no signicant difference in the UVVis spectra of isoprene SOA formed under NOx-free and high-NOx conditions. Quantum mechanical calculations suggest that electrons must be de-localized over the equivalent of 78 bond lengths before an absorption will occur at 360 nm (Kuhn, 1949). Therefore, our results suggest SOA produced from isoprene photochemical oxidation does not contain products that have extended carbon conjugated chains, consistent with current understanding that isoprene photochemical oxidation products consist of carbonyls, hydroxycarbonyls, diols, and organic peroxides (e.g., Nguyen et al., 2011). On the other hand, Y.-H. Lin et al. (2014) has suggested that acidic seeds may promote formation of oligomers through reactive uptake of IEPOX and produced light-absorbing OA under certain conditions.In our experiments, neither acidic seeds nor excess ammonia are present, which could explain the difference between our observations and those of Y.-H. Lin et al. (2014).
Compared to isoprene SOA, SOA formed from photo-chemical oxidation of -pinene showed slightly higher absorption in the 300350 nm wavelength range, though the absolute MAC values are still small. We observe a slight in-
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SOA samples were collected on lters to measure their light absorption. Photooxidation products were collected onto polytetrauoroethylene (PTFE) lters (Pall Life Sciences, 47 mm, 1 m pore size) at a ow rate of 9 L min1 for a collection period of 60120 min. Typically at least 20 g of organic mass is required for accurate measurement of light absorption. As described in previous studies (Hecobian et al., 2010; Zhang et al., 2011), lters were extracted in high purity water (> 18.2 M[Omega1] cm), ltered through a 25 mm diameter 0.45 m pore syringe lter (Fisher Scientic, FisherbrandTM Syringe Filters) and transferred into a long-path (100 cm pathlength) UVVisible spectrometer (Ocean Optics) to determine the light-absorption spectra. After water extraction, lters were also sonicated in methanol (VWR International, A.C.S. Grade) to extract non-water soluble mass (Liu et al., 2013; J. Liu et al., 2015). Total absorption due to BrC (Abs( )) is determined as the sum of water-soluble and methanol-extracted absorption from the sequential extraction processes. An extraction efciency test was performed with six lters, in which lters were cut in halves, one-half extracted with methanol only and the other half processed with the sequential extraction. Results show that the sum of light absorption from the sequential extraction is comparable to methanol extraction alone, with a slope within 8 % of 1 (Fig. S1 in the Supplement). Studies have shown that the extraction efciency of organic mass is > 90 % using methanol as the solvent (Chen and Bond, 2010; Updyke et al., 2012). Thus, it is reasonable to assume that total light absorption determined from the sequential extraction procedure closely approximates the true optical properties of the SOA samples. The limit of detection (LOD) was 0.081 Mm1 in the 300700 nm wavelength range with an estimated uncertainty of 21 %. The mass absorption coefcient (MAC) was then estimated using Eq. (1):
MAC( ) =
Abs( )
OM (1)
in which Abs( ) is the light absorption from lter-collected aerosol samples at a wavelength , and OM (organic materials) is the SOA mass concentrations on the lter estimated from AMS measurements and the sampled air volume. Wall-loss corrections were not applied to either measured SOA mass concentrations or light absorption determined from lter-collected aerosol samples for consistency. Based on lowest SOA mass concentrations during all experiments, the LOD of the MAC is estimated as 0.004 m2 g1.
Description of the SOA two-product model
Ambient studies have shown that SOA produced from urban emissions in isoprene-rich environments tend to have much lower BrC absorption compared to that in anthropogenic emission-dominant environments (Zhang et al., 2011). In our study, two mixed-precursor experiments were conducted to investigate the changes in aromatic BrC due to the addi-
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Figure 1. MAC values for SOA formed under NOx-free and high-NOx conditions, from isoprene, -pinene, TMB, and toluene. Note the 10 difference in scale between the terpene and aromatic pre
cursors. The MAC values shown in this gure are tabulated in the Supplement (Table S1).
crease in the MAC values at wavelengths below 450 nm for the -pinene SOA formed under high-NOx conditions relative to that formed in the absence of NOx. These observations are consistent with other studies that have found minimal light absorption for -pinene SOA, again indicating that the compounds partitioning to the condensed phase do not have extended conjugation (Henry and Donahue, 2012; Nakayama et al., 2010; Laskin et al., 2014).
In contrast to the SOA produced from the terpene precursors, aromatic precursors representative of anthropogenic VOCs produce SOA that signicantly absorbs light, particularly in the UV wavelength range. Overall, the MAC values of the SOA produced from both TMB and toluene are much higher than biogenic SOA, for both NOx-free and high-NOx conditions (Fig. 2). Lambe et al. (2013) suggested that the conjugated double bonds retained in oxidation products of aromatic precursors are likely to contribute to absorption in the ultraviolet to near-visible range. SOA formed from non-aromatic precursors, on the other hand, did not show strong light absorption in the ultravioletvisible range due to lack of extended conjugated double bond networks.
For both toluene and TMB SOA, high-NOx products show substantially higher light absorption than low NOx. Shown in Figs. 1 and 2, aromatic SOA formed under high-NOx conditions have much higher MAC values, both in the UV and in the visible. Several studies, based upon both chamber and
Figure 2. Comparison of MAC from various types of SOA, at a wavelength of 365 nm.
eld observations, have suggested that nitrogen-containing molecules are strong light absorbers (i.e., Nakayama et al., 2013; P. F. Liu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2015b). In a companion study, we reported detailed characterization of the most prominent BrC chromophores in toluene SOA formed under both NOx-free and high-NOx conditions by deploying liquid chromatography combined with a UVVis detector and high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-UV/Vis-ESI/HRMS) (Lin et al., 2015b). Samples of toluene SOA produced under high-NOx and NOx-free conditions have substantially different chemical compositions.In high-NOx SOA, we identied 15 nitro-aromatic compounds, including nitrocatechol, dinitrocatechol, and nitrophenol, the total absorbance of which accounts for 60 and 41 % of the overall absorbance in the wavelength ranges of 300400 and 400500 nm, respectively (Lin et al., 2015b).In contrast, photooxidation products observed in NOx-free SOA are dominated by non-aromatic compounds with a high degree of saturation, which did not show substantial light absorption in the UVVis range. Similar to toluene SOA, TMB SOA produced under high-NOx conditions contains nitrogen-containing compounds in contrast to NOx-free SOA, which explains the difference in light-absorbing properties (Liu et al., 2012).
For similar reaction conditions, the TMB-derived SOA samples are less absorptive than the toluene SOA. The difference in the light absorption properties between toluene SOA and TMB SOA may be explained by the difference in the production of nitrophenols. Sato et al. (2012) showed that nitrophenols were not detected in the TMB SOA, possibly due to the fact that NO2 addition to the phenoxy radical formed in reaction of TMB with OH is inhibited. Our measurement is consistent with this hypothesis and infers that nitro-aromatics such as nitrophenols are the main sources of light absorption for the aromatic SOA.
The MAC values of SOA produced from aromatic VOCs are comparable to those of other light-absorbing material relevant to atmospheric aerosol particles, such as fulvic acid.Shown in Fig. 3a, the blue shaded area represents the measured MAC range of SOA produced in the toluene + NOx ex-
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Figure 3. (a) MAC values of Suwanee River fulvic acid (SRFA), and toluene SOA formed at different high-NOx conditions.(b) Imaginary part of the refractive index, k, derived from toluene high-NOx SOA measurements through the 300700 nm range, with SRFA and literature data as references (Nakayama et al., 2010, 2013; Liu et al., 2015b; Zhong and Jang, 2011). SRFA k values were estimated assuming a density of 1.47 g cm3 (Dinar et al., 2006).
periments, with the MAC of Suwannee River fulvic acid as a reference. Over the wavelength range 380480 nm, toluene SOA has higher MAC values than fulvic acid. Since fulvic acid is often cited as a surrogate of strong light-absorbing atmospheric BrC associated with biomass burning, this comparison shows that light absorption by BrC produced from anthropogenic VOCs can be signicant under certain photo-chemical condition, consistent with high MAC values measured previously in urban environments when biomass burning impacts were low (e.g., Zhang et al., 2011, 2013; Liu et al., 2013).
3.2 Mixed-precursor experiments
Results from laboratory studies have shown that the addition of isoprene reduced the BrC absorption of aerosols formed from toluene + -pinene mixtures (Jaoui et al., 2008). The
lower absorption was attributed to decreased organic aerosol yields (e.g., lower amounts of light-absorbing SOA were formed) (Jaoui et al., 2008). From ambient observations, Zhang et al. (2011) reported contrasting light absorption properties in two urban environments. Fresh SOA in Los Angeles displayed much higher light-absorption presumably be-
Figure 4. Comparison of MAC values from single-precursor and mixed-precursor experiments. Bars represent the MAC values at 365 nm from measurements, and are color-coded by the mass fraction of aromatic SOA. The blue diamonds represent the predicted MAC values based on the modeled fraction of isoprene SOA and aromatic SOA, with error bars indicating the uncertainty.
cause of the anthropogenic-dominated environment, whereas Atlanta aerosols formed from a mix of anthropogenic and biogenic (isoprene) VOC precursors had a 46 times lower MAC value. Hecobian et al. (2010) measured the light absorption of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) in Atlanta in different seasons and found that the winter WSOC has a
3 times higher MAC than summer, due to a higher fraction of organic aerosols formed from biogenic VOCs in summer. Using summertime samples collected in Atlanta, Liu et al. (2013) reported a signicantly higher BrC MAC value that was associated with primary anthropogenic emissions, compared to the lower MAC value observed at sites with local anthropogenic emissions on top of regional biogenic-dominant emissions. To investigate whether isoprene photooxidation products enhance or inhibit absorption of aromatic SOA, we conducted two mixed-precursor experiments. Figure 4 shows the comparison of MAC values at 365 nm of SOA formed from single precursor and from mixed isoprene and aromatic VOCs, under high-NOx conditions. In both isoprene/toluene and isoprene/TMB experiments, the SOA formed has lower MAC values than those formed from the pure aromatics alone. Qualitatively, this is the behavior that one would expect, since non-absorbing isoprene SOA will dilute the chromophores from the aromatic-derived SOA. To determine
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whether the total aerosol absorption can be described quantitatively, we rst estimate the mass of aromatic- and isoprene-derived SOA (Table S2) using a partitioning model described in the Description of the SOA two-product model section. We then calculate predicted aerosol MAC values as the mass-weighted average of the MAC values measured for the pure isoprene- and aromatic-derived SOA species. Figure 4 shows a comparison of the measured and predicted mixed-precursor SOA optical properties. The predicted MAC values are 3155 % lower than the measurements, a difference that is likely outside of the measurement uncertainty. There are several potential explanations for the difference between the predicted and observed MAC values. First, it is possible that SOA formation is not well-described by partitioning theory. One potential source of error in our calculation is that we assume isoprene and aromatic SOA are fully miscible in one another; however, we note that the total predicted SOA mass is within 10 % of the observed SOA mass and hence the underprediction of the MAC values cannot be explained by this error. A second possibility is that the partitioning model underestimates the mass of aromatic SOA that has condensed into the mixed-phase particles. Studies have shown that gas-phase wall loss of toluene reaction products can be signicant under certain conditions in batch-mode experiments (Zhang et al., 2014). The SOA yield parameterizations are based on data collected in the absence of seed particles, in which case gas-phase wall loss could be signicant. However, isoprene reacts much more quickly than toluene (Fig. S2); therefore, isoprene SOA should form rst and provide surface area which should mitigate the gas-phase wall loss of the toluene reaction products. Because no seed particles were present in the pure toluene experiments, we would expect those yield values to be biased low relative to the toluene yield in the mixed-precursor experiments, thus potentially explaining the underprediction of MAC values. A third possibility is that organic peroxides and alcohols, which were shown to be the dominant component of isoprene SOA (Krechmer et al., 2015), may react with toluene SOA components to produce oligomers capable of absorbing in the UVVIS that are not present in the single-precursor SOA particles. Examination of the AMS spectra in the mixed experiments and comparison to the spectra of the pure aromatic-and isoprene-SOA were inconclusive in providing evidence of this hypothesis. Samples were not collected for detailed analysis by LC-UV/Vis-ESI/HRMS. Therefore, at this time we cannot conclusively explain the apparent absorption enhancements we observe.
3.3 Effect of relative humidity on light absorption by aromatic SOA
In order to investigate the effect of RH on SOA light absorption, both toluene and TMB photo-oxidation experiments were conducted at xed VOC and NOx values but variable RH levels (Table 1). Figure 5 illustrates the light absorption
Figure 5. MAC spectra of TMB and toluene SOA formed at < 5, 30, 50, and 80 % RH.
spectra of toluene- and TMB-derived SOA as a function of experimental RH. The data shown here were from samples collected at a photolysis time of 200 min, which corresponds to the time when light absorption reached its highest value.In both TMB and toluene experiments, SOA generated under dry conditions (RH < 5 %) displayed signicantly lower MACs than SOA formed at RH > 30 %. SOA formed at 30, 50, and 80 % RH have similar light absorption to one another. Thus, moderate RH enhances the MAC values by a factor of 1.33 at 365 nm and further increases in RH have no effect. An overview of toluene-SOA molecular compositions was analyzed by nano-DESI/HRMS (Lin et al., 2015b), and showed that a large number of nitrogen-containing compounds (CHON) were produced under moderate RH condition (Fig. S3). The difference in molecular compositions suggest that low RH inhibited the formation of nitrogen-containing compounds, which have been shown to be major light absorbers in toluene SOA formed in the presence of NOx (Nakayama et al., 2013; P. F. Liu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2015b).
We are unable to identify any gas-phase reactions in the toluene photolysis mechanism directly involving water vapor. Thus, we conclude that RH must be affecting particle-phase reactions that enhance chromophore formation. Several studies have investigated the effect of RH on various particle-phase SOA chemistry and optical properties. Song et al. (2013) found that SOA produced from -pinene + NOx + O3 in the presence of acidic seed aerosols
at elevated RH was less light-absorbing than SOA formed under dry conditions, which is opposite of our observations.They suggested that the change in light-absorbing properties might be triggered by evaporation of water, which may have enhanced the acidity of aerosol seeds (Nguyen et al., 2012), thereby promoting oligomerization reactions. Zhong and Jang (2014) investigated the light absorption of BrC formed from wood burning and observed a faster decay of chromophores at higher RH, which they attributed to the decomposition of chromophores by H2O2 that is produced by aqueous-phase photooxidation in the presence of elevated water content level. Moderate to high RH may promote
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Table 1. Summary of experiments and experimental conditions described in this work.
Experiment Experiment VOC Initial VOC Initial NO (ppb) RH type concentration (%)
(ppb)
1 1 isoprene 359.37 < 1 (NOx free) 30
2 1 -pinene 22.73 < 1 (NOx free) 30
3 1 TMB 316.30 < 1 (NOx free) 30
4 1 toluene 339.92 < 1 (NOx free) 30
5 2 isoprene 311.45 1754.67 (high NOx) 30
6 2 -pinene 45.45 466.09 (high NOx) 30
7 2 TMB 289.94 1589.6 (high NOx) 30
8 2 toluene 317.26 1800 (high NOx) 30
9 2 Isoprene + TMB 178.51 + 123.71 1800 (high NOx) 30
10 2 Isoprene + toluene 158.09 + 106.43 1800 (high NOx) 30
11 3 TMB 263.58 1500 (high NOx) 30 12 3 toluene 339.92 1900 (high NOx) 30 13 4 TMB 263.58 1800 (high NOx) < 5 14 4 TMB 263.58 1800 (high NOx) 50 15 4 TMB 263.58 1800 (high NOx) 80 16 4 Toluene 396 1800 (high NOx) < 5 17 4 Toluene 300 1800 (high NOx) 50 18 4 Toluene 339.92 1800 (high NOx) 80
heterogeneous reactions, which aids in the reactive uptake of volatile compounds into aerosols. Cao and Jang (2010) decoupled SOA mass into partitioning and heterogeneous aerosol production in a tolueneNOx system, and suggested that moderate RH results in a higher fraction of SOA formed via heterogeneous reactions than low RH conditions. Similar effects might be also pertinent to the toluene SOA. Another possible explanation is that SOA formed under low RH conditions may exist in a viscous, semi-solid, or glassy state due to particle-phase oligomerization reactions (Saukko et al., 2012; Shiraiwa et al., 2013), whereas SOA formed at moderate/high RH would be less viscous. Since only one experiment was conducted under dry condition for each compound it is difcult to draw conclusions, but further investigations are warranted.
3.4 Effect of photochemical aging on light absorption of aromatic SOA
Atmospheric aerosols have a wide range of lifetimes, ranging from hours to days (i.e., Wagstrom and Pandis, 2009). Previous studies have observed a decrease in aerosol absorption with aging in BrC from various sources including biomass burning and SOA formed from aromatics (Forrister et al., 2015; Zhong and Jang, 2011; Lee et al., 2014). We therefore performed several experiments to study the effect of aging on BrC absorption. Figure 6 shows the MAC values at 365 nm as a function of photolysis time for toluene and TMB SOA produced in the presence of NOx at 30 % RH (complete spectra in the wavelength range of 300700 nm are provided as Fig. S4, with values tabulated in Table S3). We observe a
Figure 6. Measurements of the MAC values (at 365 nm) of toluene and TMB SOA formed at 30 % RH in the presence of NOx as a function of photochemical age (top panels). The bottom panels show the AMS-measured ON-to-OM ratio.
clear decrease in aerosol absorption with aging with MAC values decreasing by 35 % after 400 min and > 50 % after
800 min.
Laboratory studies have suggested that photo-bleaching was due to degradation of BrC chromophores (Lee et al., 2014; Zhong and Jang, 2011, 2014). In our observations, the decrease of MAC with aging is accompanied by a decreas-
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Figure 7. MAC values of aromatic SOA formed under high-NOx conditions and aged in the chamber with the lights off at different RH levels.
ing ON-to-OM ratio, shown in Fig. 6. Here we dene the term ON as the sum of the NO, NO2, and CxHyOzNw families measured by AMS, to represent organic nitrates formed during the experiments. NO and NO2 come exclusively from organic nitrates in these experiments. Ammonium is below the instrument detection limit, and the ratio of m/z 30 : 46 (around 56) is indicative of organic nitrate, thus ruling out formation of ammonium nitrate (Farmer et al., 2010). Therefore, the decrease in the aerosol ON : OM with time indicates the loss of ON groups (Fig. 6). ON groups have been identied as the strong light absorbers in aromatic SOA formed under high-NOx conditions; thus, the relative decrease in ON fraction relative to OM is consistent with the observed evolution in OA light absorption.
This observed loss of ON could be caused by photolysis and/or hydrolysis of ON groups. Lee et al. (2014) observed a substantial decline in the double bond equivalent (DBE) values upon photolysis of aromatic SOA, and suggested that the decrease in SOA light absorption and chemical composition was due to photolysis. On the other hand, Liu et al. (2012) suggested that particle-phase hydrolysis could substantially reduce ON group concentration, which they also related to a decrease in BrC light absorption. To distinguish between the effects from photolysis and hydrolysis, SOA was allowed to age in the chamber with UV lights off but at elevated RH in several experiments. Shown in Fig. 7, the MAC values of toluene and TMB SOA are approximately constant with aging despite the elevated RH. Therefore, we conclude that decrease in MAC values are driven primarily by photolysis(i.e., photobleaching), which is correlated with loss of ON groups that have been shown in many studies, including our companion study, to be BrC chromophores (Lin et al., 2015b;P. F. Liu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2013). The effect of RH is less clear, with the dark experiments suggesting the net effect of water-related processes, such as hydrolysis and oligomer-
Table 2. Derived imaginary part of refractive index (k) of brown carbon formed from various VOC precursors at 365 nm. Tabulated values are k 10
3.
NOx free High NOx
Isoprene 0.029 0.196 -pinene 0 1.15TMB 0.967 6.0289.899 Toluene 0.461 19.4846.87
ization, is either negligible or tends to slightly enhance BrC light absorption, while comparison of experiments with and without RH (Sect. 3.3) suggests moderate RH enhances the SOA MAC values.
3.5 Imaginary refractive indices
So far, our discussion focused on mass-normalized absorption based on solution measurements, which is not directly relatable to light absorption by aerosol particles. Therefore, we derive the imaginary refractive index, k, from spectroscopic data, which can be incorporated into climate models. The k value is derived using Eq. (2):
k =
p
p Abs( )
4 OM =
4 MAC( ), (2)
where Abs( ) is the solution absorption at a given wavelength, OM is the organic mass extracted in solution, and p is the density of organic aerosols. The density of organic aerosols was calculated by comparing the volume-weighted mobility size measured by SMPS and the mass-weighted aerodynamic size distribution measured by AMS (DeCarlo et al., 2004). A density of 1.25 0.3 g cm3 was obtained
for SOA produced under NOx-free conditions, while a density of 1.41 0.2 g cm3 was estimated for SOA produced in
high-NOx experiments. Those density values were employed in Eq. (2) to estimate k values at 365 nm for various types of SOA, which are summarized in Table 2 (k values for the 300700 nm range are listed in Table S4).
Although -pinene and isoprene have large contributions to the global SOA budget, they were shown to produce SOA with very small light absorption coefcients under the photo-chemical conditions we investigated, which agrees with literature data (i.e., Nakayama et al., 2010; Lang-Yona et al., 2010). The SOA compounds produced are dominated by carbonyl, carboxyl, and hydroxyl functional groups, which do not have strong electronic transitions in the UVVis range.As a result, those biogenic SOA particles are expected to have a mostly cooling effect on global radiative balance.However, studies have shown that biogenic SOA can be converted into BrC via reactions with dissolved ammonia (Updyke et al., 2012; Laskin et al., 2014), or by monoterpene SOA formed from nighttime reactions with NO3 radical (Washenfelder et al., 2015). Furthermore, it has been demon-
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strated that reactive uptake of IEPOX into acidic aerosols produce BrC (Y.-H. Lin et al., 2014), which may have substantial impacts on specic regions with elevated ammonia levels and/or active IEPOX chemistry.
In the present study, the SOA generated from the photooxidation of aromatic VOC precursors, particularly toluene, were found to have signicant absorption in the UVVis range when formed in the presence of NOx. Toluene SOA formed under high-NOx conditions has a k value ranging from 0.019 to 0.047 at 365 nm, and 0.0110.033 at 405 nm.Shown in Fig. 3b, the k values are in good agreement with the measurement by Nakayama et al. (2010), where reported k values were 0.047 at 355 nm and 0.007 at 532 nm. The k values reported by Zhong and Jang (2011) and P. F. Liu et al. (2015) are close to the lower limit from this work, the former reported a k value of 0.0214 at 350 nm, and the latter reported a range of 0.0220.033 at 320 nm. However, the k values derived in this work are substantially higher than those in Nakayama et al. (2013), which reported k values ranging from 0.0018 to 0.0072 at 405 nm. A possible explanation is the difference in NOx levels among the experiments;Zhong and Jang (2011) and Nakayama et al. (2013) studies were conducted at NOx levels lower than 1 ppmv, which are lower than employed in our study. Nakayama et al. (2013) has reported that light absorption of SOA has a dependence on NOx, that MAC increases with NOx, which likely also explains the higher k values reported by earlier work from the same group (Nakayama et al., 2010). Another potentially important difference among the experiments is the RH, with Nakayama 2013 and the Liu studies conducted under dry conditions (Nakayama et al., 2013; P. F. Liu et al., 2015).From what we have observed, moderate RH could enhance the light absorption of BrC.
4 Conclusions and atmospheric implications
Among ambient studies reporting BrC light absorption, high MAC values are almost exclusively reported for aerosols attributed to biomass burning (Kirchstetter et al., 2004; Hoffer et al., 2006; Alexander et al., 2008; Dinar et al., 2008;Chakrabarty et al., 2010; Lack et al., 2013), and the limited number of models that include BrC generally use biomass burning aerosol optical properties as high-absorption references (G. Lin et al., 2014; Feng et al., 2013). Our results suggest that organic aerosols formed from certain anthropogenic VOC precursors also display efcient light absorption. Specically, the MAC values obtained from the toluene + high-NOx experiment were comparable to that of
fulvic acid, which has been used as model compounds for biomass burning HULIS (Dinar et al., 2006; Brooks et al., 2004; Chan and Chan, 2003; Fuzzi et al., 2001; Samburova et al., 2005). The results suggest that in addition to BrC from biomass burning, the photooxidation of anthropogenic pre-
cursors can also have signicant impacts on light absorption at wavelengths that drive photochemical reactions.
BrC observed in urban environments has large variations in reported MAC values, and our mixed-precursor experiments may provide some explanations for the observed variation. From our measurements, SOA formed from mixtures of isoprene + aromatic VOC have lower MAC values than
those formed from the pure aromatics, suggesting that isoprene photooxidation products dilute light-absorbing compounds. Therefore, it is possible that some of the variance in BrC properties between urban sites can be explained by the presence or absence of biogenic emissions. In addition, our results suggested that NOx concentration, RH level, and photolysis time have considerable inuences on the formation and decay of light-absorbing compounds. Similar light-absorbing compounds have been identied in certain SOA samples originating from biomass burning (Desyaterik et al., 2013; Iinuma et al., 2010); since substantial variations in SOA formation in biomass burning plumes have been ob-served both chemically and physically due to fuel types and re aging conditions (Hennigan et al., 2011), we cannot simply assume similar effects of those parameters on SOA produced from biomass burning emissions. Thus, the result suggests that we should revisit how SOA is treated in climate models, especially in urban areas. Several current regional and global models include NOx-dependent SOA yield (Lane et al., 2008; Farina et al., 2010; Ahmadov et al., 2012); accurately parameterizing BrC formation from SOA will require a similar strategy.
5 Data availability
All data are available upon request to the authors.
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Acknowledgements. Authors acknowledge support by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development funds of Pacic Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). A portion of this study was performed at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientic user facility sponsored by the DOEs Ofce of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL. PNNL is operated for the US Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract no. DEAC06-76RLO 1830.
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The light-absorbing organic aerosol (OA) commonly referred to as "brown carbon" (BrC) has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of its potential to affect atmospheric radiation balance, especially in the ultraviolet region and thus impact photochemical processes. A growing amount of data has indicated that BrC is prevalent in the atmosphere, which has motivated numerous laboratory and field studies; however, our understanding of the relationship between the chemical composition and optical properties of BrC remains limited. We conducted chamber experiments to investigate the effect of various volatile organic carbon (VOC) precursors, NO<sub>x</sub> concentrations, photolysis time, and relative humidity (RH) on the light absorption of selected secondary organic aerosols (SOA). Light absorption of chamber-generated SOA samples, especially aromatic SOA, was found to increase with NO<sub>x</sub> concentration, at moderate RH, and for the shortest photolysis aging times. The highest mass absorption coefficient (MAC) value is observed from toluene SOA products formed under high-NO<sub>x</sub> conditions at moderate RH, in which nitro-aromatics were previously identified as the major light-absorbing compounds. BrC light absorption is observed to decrease with photolysis time, correlated with a decline of the organic nitrate fraction of SOA. SOA formed from mixtures of aromatics and isoprene absorb less visible (Vis) and ultraviolet (UV) light than SOA formed from aromatic precursors alone on a mass basis. However, the mixed SOA absorption was underestimated when optical properties were predicted using a two-product SOA formation model, as done in many current climate models. Further investigation, including analysis on detailed mechanisms, are required to explain the discrepancy.
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