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List of works by Joel A. Thornton

A Chemical Ionization High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Coupled to a Micro Orifice Volatilization Impactor (MOVI-HRToF-CIMS) for Analysis of Gas and Particle-Phase Organic Species

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2012

A field-deployable, chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer

scholarly article by T. H. Bertram et al published 20 July 2011 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

A large and ubiquitous source of atmospheric formic acid

scholarly article

A large atomic chlorine source inferred from mid-continental reactive nitrogen chemistry

scientific article published in March 2010

A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol

scientific article published in February 2014

A model framework to retrieve thermodynamic and kinetic properties of organic aerosol from composition-resolved thermal desorption measurements

scholarly article

A model framework to retrieve thermodynamic and kinetic properties of organic aerosol from composition-resolved thermal desorption measurements

A novel method for online analysis of gas and particle composition: description and evaluation of a Filter Inlet for Gases and AEROsols (FIGAERO)

article

A thermal dissociation laser-induced fluorescence instrument for in situ detection of NO2, peroxy nitrates, alkyl nitrates, and HNO3

scientific article

Airborne Observations of Reactive Inorganic Chlorine and Bromine Species in the Exhaust of Coal-Fired Power Plants

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Ambient observations of dimers from terpene oxidation in the gas phase: Implications for new particle formation and growth

scholarly article

An MCM modeling study of nitryl chloride (ClNO<sub>2</sub>) impacts on oxidation, ozone production and nitrogen oxide partitioning in polluted continental outflow

scholarly article

An electrospray chemical ionization source for real-time measurement of atmospheric organic and inorganic vapors

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An iodide-adduct high-resolution time-of-flight chemical-ionization mass spectrometer: application to atmospheric inorganic and organic compounds

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

An odd oxygen framework for wintertime ammonium nitrate aerosol pollution in urban areas: NO x and VOC control as mitigation strategies

scholarly article

Anthropogenic control over wintertime oxidation of atmospheric pollutants

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Anthropogenic enhancements to production of highly oxygenated molecules from autoxidation

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Appreciation of 2017 GRL Peer Reviewers

scholarly article by Noah Diffenbaugh et al published 15 May 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Assessing known pathways for HO2loss in aqueous atmospheric aerosols: Regional and global impacts on tropospheric oxidants

scientific article published in 2008

BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate

Chemical Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Oxidation of Isoprene Hydroxyhydroperoxides

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Chemical feedbacks weaken the wintertime response of particulate sulfate and nitrate to emissions reductions over the eastern United States

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Chlorine activation within urban or power plant plumes: Vertically resolved ClNO2and Cl2measurements from a tall tower in a polluted continental setting

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ClNO 2 Yields From Aircraft Measurements During the 2015 WINTER Campaign and Critical Evaluation of the Current Parameterization

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Closing the peroxy acetyl nitrate budget: observations of acyl peroxy nitrates (PAN, PPN, and MPAN) during BEARPEX 2007

scholarly article published in 2009

Comprehensive characterization of atmospheric organic carbon at a forested site

Computational Study of Hydrogen Shifts and Ring-Opening Mechanisms in α-Pinene Ozonolysis Products

scientific article

Constraining condensed-phase formation kinetics of secondary organic aerosol components from isoprene epoxydiols

scholarly article

Constraining condensed-phase formation kinetics of secondary organic aerosol components from isoprene epoxydiols

Constraining the sensitivity of iodide adduct chemical ionization mass spectrometry to multifunctional organic molecules using the collision limit and thermodynamic stability of iodide ion adducts

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Contribution of nitrated phenols to wood burning brown carbon light absorption in Detling, United Kingdom during winter time.

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Daily and intraseasonal relationships between lightning and NO2over the Maritime Continent

scholarly article

Daytime Oxidized Reactive Nitrogen Partitioning in Western U.S. Wildfire Smoke Plumes

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Decadal changes in summertime reactive oxidized nitrogen and surface ozone over the Southeast United States

scholarly article

Direct Constraints on Secondary HONO Production in Aged Wildfire Smoke From Airborne Measurements Over the Western US

scientific article published in 2022

Direct N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> reactivity measurements at a polluted coastal site

scholarly article

Direct observations of N2O5reactivity on ambient aerosol particles

scholarly article

Effect of hydrophobic primary organic aerosols on secondary organic aerosol formation from ozonolysis ofα-pinene

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Effects of chemical complexity on the autoxidation mechanisms of endocyclic alkene ozonolysis products: from methylcyclohexenes toward understanding α-pinene

scientific article

Efficient Isoprene Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from a Non-IEPOX Pathway

scientific article

Emissions of Reactive Nitrogen From Western U.S. Wildfires During Summer 2018

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Emissions of Trace Organic Gases From Western U.S. Wildfires Based on WE‐CAN Aircraft Measurements

scientific article published in 2021

Empirical Insights Into the Fate of Ammonia in Western U.S. Wildfire Smoke Plumes

scientific article published in 2021

Enhanced formation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol in sulfur-rich power plant plumes during Southeast Nexus

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Estimating the saturation vapor pressures of isoprene oxidation products C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub> and C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>6</sub> using COSMO-RS

Estimating the saturation vapor pressures of isoprene oxidation products C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub> and C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>6</sub> using COSMO-RS

scholarly article

Evaluating Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with a Combined Molecular Composition and Volatility Framework Using the Filter Inlet for Gases and Aerosols (FIGAERO)

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Field intercomparison of the gas/particle partitioning of oxygenated organics during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) in 2013

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2017

Fine particle pH and the partitioning of nitric acid during winter in the northeastern United States

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Flight Deployment of a High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer: Observations of Reactive Halogen and Nitrogen Oxide Species

Forest-atmosphere exchange of ozone: sensitivity to very reactive biogenic VOC emissions and implications for in-canopy photochemistry

scholarly article

Formaldehyde production from isoprene oxidation across NOx regimes.

scholarly article

Formation of Low-Volatility Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere: Recent Advancements and Insights

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Growth Kinetics and Size Distribution Dynamics of Viscous Secondary Organic Aerosol

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

HONO Emissions from Western U.S. Wildfires Provide Dominant Radical Source in Fresh Wildfire Smoke

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Heterogeneous N2 O5 Uptake During Winter: Aircraft Measurements During the 2015 WINTER Campaign and Critical Evaluation of Current Parameterizations

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Heterogeneous Nitrate Production Mechanisms in Intense Haze Events in the North China Plain

scientific article

Heterogeneous Reactions of Isoprene-Derived Epoxides: Reaction Probabilities and Molar Secondary Organic Aerosol Yield Estimates

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High upward fluxes of formic acid from a boreal forest canopy

scholarly article by Siegfried Schobesberger et al published 14 September 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters

Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOM) from Gas-Phase Autoxidation Involving Peroxy Radicals: A Key Contributor to Atmospheric Aerosol

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

scientific article

Identifying precursors and aqueous organic aerosol formation pathways during the SOAS campaign

scholarly article

Identifying precursors and aqueous organic aerosol formation pathways during the SOAS campaign

Increasing Isoprene Epoxydiol-to-Inorganic Sulfate Aerosol Ratio Results in Extensive Conversion of Inorganic Sulfate to Organosulfur Forms: Implications for Aerosol Physicochemical Properties

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Influence of trans-Pacific pollution transport on acyl peroxy nitrate abundances and speciation at Mount Bachelor Observatory during INTEX-B

scholarly article

Influence of trans-Pacific pollution transport on acyl peroxy nitrate abundances and speciation at Mount Bachelor Observatory during INTEX-B

Insights into hydroxyl measurements and atmospheric oxidation in a California forest

scholarly article

Instrumentation and Measurement Strategy for the NOAA SENEX Aircraft Campaign as Part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study 2013

Instrumentation and Measurement Strategy for the NOAA SENEX Aircraft Campaign as Part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study 2013.

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Interannual variability of long-range transport as seen at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory

Interannual variability of long-range transport as seen at the Mt. Bachelor observatory

scholarly article

Isomerization of Second-Generation Isoprene Peroxy Radicals: Epoxide Formation and Implications for Secondary Organic Aerosol Yields

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Isothermal Evaporation of α-Pinene Ozonolysis SOA: Volatility, Phase State, and Oligomeric Composition

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Kinetics of Surface-Bound Benzo[a]pyrene and Ozone on Solid Organic and Salt Aerosols

article by Nana-Owusua A. Kwamena et al published December 2004 in Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes

scholarly article

Measurements of HO2uptake to aqueous aerosol: Mass accommodation coefficients and net reactive loss

scholarly article

Measurements of the sum of HO2NO2 and CH3O2NO2 in the remote troposphere

scientific article

Meteorology, Air Quality, and Health in London: The ClearfLo Project

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Modeling the Detection of Organic and Inorganic Compounds Using Iodide-Based Chemical Ionization

scientific article

Molecular Composition and Volatility of Organic Aerosol in the Southeastern U.S.: Implications for IEPOX Derived SOA.

scientific article

Molecular composition and volatility of isoprene photochemical oxidation secondary organic aerosol under low and high NO<sub>x</sub> conditions

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Molecular composition and volatility of isoprene photochemical oxidation secondary organic aerosol under low- and high-NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> conditions

scholarly article

Molecular identification of organic vapors driving atmospheric nanoparticle growth

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Multiphase reactivity of gaseous hydroperoxide oligomers produced from isoprene ozonolysis in the presence of acidified aerosols

N(2)O(5) reaction on submicron sea salt aerosol: kinetics, products, and the effect of surface active organics

scientific article

N2O5 hydrolysis on sub-micron organic aerosols: the effect of relative humidity, particle phase, and particle size

N2O5 reactive uptake kinetics and chlorine activation on authentic biomass-burning aerosol

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

N2O5 uptake coefficients and nocturnal NO2 removal rates determined from ambient wintertime measurements

scientific article

NO x Lifetime and NO y Partitioning During WINTER

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New Geophysical Research Letters Editorial, Revisions Policies

Nighttime and daytime dark oxidation chemistry in wildfire plumes: an observation and model analysis of FIREX-AQ aircraft data

scientific article published on 08 November 2021

Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant plume: Implications for secondary organic nitrate and organosulfate aerosol formation, NO3radical chemistry, and N2O5heterogeneous hydrolysis

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Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms and organic aerosol

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Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol

scholarly article

Nitrogen Oxides Emissions, Chemistry, Deposition, and Export Over the Northeast United States During the WINTER Aircraft Campaign

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Nitrogen, Aerosol Composition, and Halogens on a Tall Tower (NACHTT): Overview of a wintertime air chemistry field study in the front range urban corridor of Colorado

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Nitryl chloride and molecular chlorine in the coastal marine boundary layer

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Observational insights into aerosol formation from isoprene

scientific article published on 3 October 2013

Observations and Modeling of NO<i><sub>x</sub></i> Photochemistry and Fate in Fresh Wildfire Plumes

scientific article published in 2021

Observations of atmosphere-biosphere exchange of total and speciated peroxynitrates: nitrogen fluxes and biogenic sources of peroxynitrates

scholarly article

Observations of elevated formaldehyde over a forest canopy suggest missing sources from rapid oxidation of arboreal hydrocarbons

scholarly article

Olfaction in the Anthropocene: NO <sub>3</sub> negatively affects floral scent and nocturnal pollination

scientific article published on 08 February 2024

On the temperature dependence of organic reactivity, nitrogen oxides, ozone production, and the impact of emission controls in San Joaquin Valley, California

scholarly article

Online molecular characterization of fine particulate matter in Port Angeles, WA: Evidence for a major impact from residential wood smoke

scholarly article by Cassandra J. Gaston et al published August 2016 in Atmospheric Environment

Organic nitrate aerosol formation via NO 3 + BVOC in the Southeastern US

Organic nitrate aerosol formation via NO<sub>3</sub> + biogenic volatile organic compounds in the southeastern United States

scholarly article

Ozone photochemistry in an oil and natural gas extraction region during winter: simulations of a snow-free season in the Uintah Basin, Utah

scholarly article

Ozone production chemistry in the presence of urban plumes.

scientific article

Particulate Organic Matter Detection Using a Micro-Orifice Volatilization Impactor Coupled to a Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (MOVI-CIMS)

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2010

Phase partitioning and volatility of secondary organic aerosol components formed from α-pinene ozonolysis and OH oxidation: the importance of accretion products and other low volatility compounds

scholarly article

Phase partitioning of soluble trace gases with size-resolved aerosols in near-surface continental air over northern Colorado, USA, during winter

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Photochemical modeling of glyoxal at a rural site: observations and analysis from BEARPEX 2007

scholarly article

Photolysis Controls Atmospheric Budgets of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Predicting secondary organic aerosol phase state and viscosity and its effect on multiphase chemistry in a regional-scale air quality model

scholarly article

Probing aerosol formation by comprehensive measurements of gas phase oxidation products

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Production of N2O5 and ClNO2 through Nocturnal Processing of Biomass-Burning Aerosol

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Quantification of organic aerosol and brown carbon evolution in fresh wildfire plumes

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Quantifying trace gas uptake to tropospheric aerosol: recent advances and remaining challenges

scientific article published on October 7, 2012

Quantitative constraints on autoxidation and dimer formation from direct probing of monoterpene-derived peroxy radical chemistry

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Rapid cloud removal of dimethyl sulfide oxidation products limits SO2 and cloud condensation nuclei production in the marine atmosphere

scholarly article

Reactive nitrogen partitioning and its relationship to winter ozone events in Utah

scholarly article

Reactive nitrogen partitioning and its relationship to winter ozone events in Utah

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Reactive uptake of N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> to internally mixed inorganic and organic particles: the role of organic carbon oxidation state and inferred organic phase separations

scholarly article

Reactive uptake of an isoprene-derived epoxydiol to submicron aerosol particles

scientific article

Reactivity of stabilized Criegee intermediates (sCIs) from isoprene and monoterpene ozonolysis toward SO<sub>2</sub> and organic acids

scholarly article

Reacto-Diffusive Length of N2O5 in Aqueous Sulfate- and Chloride-Containing Aerosol Particles

scientific article

Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

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Resolving ambient organic aerosol formation and aging pathways with simultaneous molecular composition and volatility observations

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Rising Importance of Organosulfur Species for Aerosol Properties and Future Air Quality

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Secondary organic aerosol reduced by mixture of atmospheric vapours

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Semi-continuous measurements of gas/particle partitioning of organic acids in a ponderosa pine forest using a MOVI-HRToF-CIMS

Semi-volatile and highly oxygenated gaseous and particulate organic compounds observed above a boreal forest canopy

Semi-volatile and highly oxygenated gaseous and particulate organic compounds observed above a boreal forest canopy

scholarly article

Semicontinuous measurements of gas–particle partitioning of organic acids in a ponderosa pine forest using a MOVI-HRToF-CIMS

scholarly article

Sources and Secondary Production of Organic Aerosols in the Northeastern United States during WINTER

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Spatially Resolved Photochemistry Impacts Emissions Estimates in Fresh Wildfire Plumes

scientific article published in 2021

Supplementary material to "Global tropospheric halogen (Cl, Br, I) chemistry and its impact on oxidants"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Instrumentation and Measurement Strategy for the NOAA SENEX Aircraft Campaign as Part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study 2013"

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Supplementary material to "Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms and organic aerosol"

Temperature dependent halogen activation by N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> reactions on halide-doped ice surfaces

scholarly article

Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Thank You to Our 2019 Peer Reviewers

scientific article published on 2 September 2020

The Chemistry of Atmosphere-Forest Exchange (CAFE) Model – Part 1: Model description and characterization

scholarly article

The Chemistry of Atmosphere-Forest Exchange (CAFE) Model – Part 2: Application to BEARPEX-2007 observations

scholarly article

The Chemistry of Atmosphere-Forest Exchange (CAFE) Model – Part 2: Application to BEARPEX-2007 observations

scientific article

The Essential Role for Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry

scientific article

The effect of varying levels of surfactant on the reactive uptake of N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> to aqueous aerosol

scientific article

The formation of highly oxidized multifunctional products in the ozonolysis of cyclohexene.

scientific article

The oxidation of oleate in submicron aqueous salt aerosols: evidence of a surface process

scientific article

The primary and recycling sources of OH during the NACHTT-2011 campaign: HONO as an important OH primary source in the wintertime

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The role of chlorine in global tropospheric chemistry

scholarly article

The role of chlorine in tropospheric chemistry

The sea breeze/land breeze circulation in Los Angeles and its influence on nitryl chloride production in this region

scientific article

Thermalized Epoxide Formation in the Atmosphere

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Top-Down Estimates of NO x and CO Emissions From Washington, D.C.-Baltimore During the WINTER Campaign

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Total Peroxy Nitrates (ΣPNs) in the atmosphere: the Thermal Dissociation-Laser Induced Fluorescence (TD-LIF) technique and comparisons to speciated PAN measurements

Tropospheric halogen chemistry: sources, cycling, and impacts

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Understanding the role of the ground surface in HONO vertical structure: High resolution vertical profiles during NACHTT-11

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Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Wintertime Gas-Particle Partitioning and Speciation of Inorganic Chlorine in the Lower Troposphere over the Northeast United States and Coastal Ocean

Wintertime Overnight NO x Removal in a Southeastern United States Coal-fired Power Plant Plume: A Model for Understanding Winter NO x Processing and its Implications

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