Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-907-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-907-2021
Model description paper
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12 Feb 2021
Model description paper |  | 12 Feb 2021

A zero-dimensional view of atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan (LEVCHEM_v1) using numerical chamber simulations

Loredana G. Suciu, Robert J. Griffin, and Caroline A. Masiello

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (25 Nov 2020) by Christina McCluskey
AR by Loredana Suciu on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2020)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Understanding the atmospheric degradation of biomass burning tracers such as levoglucosan is essential to decreasing uncertainties in the role of biomass burning in air quality, carbon cycling and paleoclimate. Using a 0-D modeling approach and numerical chamber simulations, we found that the multiphase atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan occurs over timescales of hours to days, can form secondary organic aerosols and affects other key tropospheric gases, such as ozone.