Isotopic characterization of nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitrous acid (HONO), and nitrate (pNO3-) from laboratory biomass burning during FIREX

Jiajue Chai; David J. Miller; Eric Scheuer; Jack Dibb; Vanessa Selimovic; Robert Yokelson; Kyle K. Zarzana; Steven Brown; Abigail R. Koss; Carsten Warneke; Meredith Hastings

doi:10.5194/amt-12-6303-2019

Isotopic characterization of nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitrous acid (HONO), and nitrate (pNO3-) from laboratory biomass burning during FIREX

Jiajue Chai, David J. Miller, Eric Scheuer, Jack Dibb, Vanessa Selimovic, Robert Yokelson, Kyle K. Zarzana, Steven Brown, Abigail R. Koss, Carsten Warneke, Meredith Hastings

Chemistry and Biochemistry

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New techniques have recently been developed and applied to capture reactive nitrogen species, including nitrogen oxides (NOx D NOCNO2), nitrous acid (HONO), nitric acid (HNO3), and particulate nitrate (pNO3 ), for accurate measurement of their isotopic composition. Here, we report – for the first time – the isotopic composition of HONO from biomass burning (BB) emissions collected during the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments Experiment (FIREX, later evolved into FIREX-AQ) at the Missoula Fire Science Laboratory in the fall of 2016. We used our newly developed annular denuder system (ADS), which was verified to completely capture HONO associated with BB in comparison with four other high-timeresolution concentration measurement techniques, including mist chamber–ion chromatography (MC–IC), open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (OP-FTIR), cavityenhanced spectroscopy (CES), and proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6303-6317
Number of pages	15
Journal	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Volume	12
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6303-2019
State	Published - Nov 29 2019

Funding

Acknowledgements. We acknowledge financial support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (AC4 Award NA16OAR4310098 to MH and JED) and the National Science Foundation (AGS-1351932 to MH). We are grateful to Ruby Ho for laboratory support and Marshall Otter for the biomass δ15N analysis. We also thank James Roberts and Matthew Coggon for helpful discussions. We are thankful to the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (grant no. NA16OAR4310098) and the National Science Foundation, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (grant no. 1351932).

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AGS-1351932
1351932
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	MH, NA16OAR4310098

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Chai, J., Miller, D. J., Scheuer, E., Dibb, J., Selimovic, V., Yokelson, R., Zarzana, K. K., Brown, S., Koss, A. R., Warneke, C., & Hastings, M. (2019). Isotopic characterization of nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitrous acid (HONO), and nitrate (pNO3-) from laboratory biomass burning during FIREX. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(12), 6303-6317. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6303-2019

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