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dc.contributor.authorD'Andrea, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-16T15:08:20Z
dc.date.available2013-12-16T15:08:20Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-16
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/42668
dc.description.abstractRecent research has shown that secondary organic aerosols (SOA) are major contributors to ultrafine particle growth to climatically relevant sizes, increasing global cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations within the continental boundary layer (BL). This thesis contains two separate studies investigating SOA characteristics and the implications of SOA on global climate. The first study investigates two critical, but uncertain, characteristics of SOA: (1) the amount of SOA available to condense and (2) the volatility or condensational behavior of SOA. The second study investigates the effect of biological volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission changes on SOA formation from preindustrial to present day, and the effect on CCN concentrations using BVOC emission estimates over the last millennium.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectaerosolen_US
dc.subjectSOAen_US
dc.subjectmicrophysicsen_US
dc.subjectsize distributionen_US
dc.subjectclimateen_US
dc.subjectmodelingen_US
dc.subjectsecondary organic aerosolen_US
dc.subjectBVOCen_US
dc.subjectbiological volatile organic compoundsen_US
dc.subjectCCNen_US
dc.subjectcloud condensation nucleien_US
dc.titleUnderstanding the global effect of secondary organic aerosol on size distributions in past and present climatesen_US
dc.date.defence2013-11-25
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Physics & Atmospheric Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorJordan Kyriakidisen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerGlen Lesinsen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorJeffrey Pierce, Randall Martinen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseYesen_US
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