Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation's CO2 removal benefits

J Weber, JA King, NL Abraham, DP Grosvenor… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Forestation is widely proposed for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal, but its impact on climate
through changes to atmospheric composition and surface albedo remains relatively …

Chemistry-driven changes strongly influence climate forcing from vegetation emissions

J Weber, S Archer-Nicholls, NL Abraham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) affect climate via changes to aerosols,
aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI), ozone and methane. BVOCs exhibit dependence on …

The impacts of VOCs on PM2. 5 increasing via their chemical losses estimates: A case study in a typical industrial city of China

W Wei, S Chen, Y Wang, L Cheng, X Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have been explicitly required to be controlled by
national or local governments to tackle heavy PM 2.5 pollution in China. However, the role of …

Isolating α-pinene ozonolysis pathways reveals new insights into peroxy radical chemistry and secondary organic aerosol formation

Z Zhao, W Zhang, T Alexander, X Zhang… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
α-Pinene ozonolysis is a key process that impacts the formation of new particles and
secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in the atmosphere. The mechanistic understanding of this …

Highly Oxygenated Organic Nitrates Formed from NO3 Radical-Initiated Oxidation of β-Pinene

H Shen, D Zhao, I Pullinen, S Kang… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The reactions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) with the nitrate radicals (NO3)
are major night-time sources of organic nitrates and secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in …

[HTML][HTML] Development, intercomparison, and evaluation of an improved mechanism for the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide in the UKCA model

BA Cala, S Archer-Nicholls, J Weber… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is an important trace gas emitted from the ocean. The oxidation of
DMS has long been recognised as being important for global climate through the role DMS …

Implementation of a parallel reduction algorithm in the GENerator of reduced Organic Aerosol mechanisms (GENOA v2. 0): Application to multiple monoterpene …

Z Wang, F Couvidat, K Sartelet - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Explicit gas-phase chemical mechanisms represent the state of knowledge regarding the
chemistry of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are crucial in the formation of …