Oxygenated and water‐soluble organic aerosols in Tokyo

[1] Submicron organic aerosol was measured simultaneously with an Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) and a particle-into-liquid sampler (PILS) capable of measuring water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) during the winter and summer of 2004 in Tokyo. Both techniques are being used to investigate the formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), and the combined data sets provide unique insights. In summer, about 80% (40–65%) of organic aerosols were oxygenated when scaled by total (carbon) mass concentration, due to high photochemical activity, leading to the active formation of SOA. In winter the fraction of oxygenated organic aerosol is reduced to 39% (total mass base) and 23% (carbon mass base). Previous AMS studies have shown that signals at m/z 44 of the AMS mass spectra of ambient aerosols are dominated by COO+, which typically originates from oxygenated organic aerosols (OOA). The signals at m/z 44 and the derived OOA mass concentrations were highly correlated with WSOC (r2 = 0.78–0.91) throughout these seasons, indicating that OOA and WSOC were very similar in their chemical characteristics. Approximately 88 ± 29% of OOA was found to be water soluble on the basis of the comparison of the WSOC concentrations with those of oxygenated organic carbon (OOC) derived from the AMS data.

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