OA Factors (ES&T 2011)

Integrated Analysis: OA Factors 

Reference: N.L. Ng, M.R. Canagaratna, J.L. Jimenez, Q. Zhang, I.M. Ulbrich, and D.R. Worsnop (2011) Real-Time Methods for Estimating Organic Component

Mass Concentrations from Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Data, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (3), pp 910–916, DOI: 10.1021/es102951k PDF

Figure 1. Standard mass spectral profiles for HOA, OOA, LV-OOA, SV-OOA, and BBOA components. The error bars represent the variability in each m/z fraction (std dev) across all data sets (n ) number of sites included in the averaging).