The State of Acidity in the Atmosphere: Particles and Clouds

Havala Olson Taylor Pye1, Athanasios Nenes2, Becky Alexander3, Andrew P Ault4, Mary C Barth5, Simon L Clegg6, Jeffrey Lee Collett Jr7, Kathleen Fahey8,9, Christopher J Hennigan10, Hartmut Herrmann11, Maria Kanakidou12, James Kelly13, I-Ting Ku14, V Faye McNeill15, Nicole Riemer16, Thomas Schaefer17, Guoliang Shi18, Andreas Tilgner17, John T Walker19, Tao Wang20, Rodney J Weber21, Jia Xing22, Rahul A Zaveri23 and Andreas Zuend24, (1)US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Chemistry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (7)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)West Sussex, United Kingdom, (9)U.S. EPA, Rtp, United States, (10)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (11)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leipzig, Germany, (12)Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, (13)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (14)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (15)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (16)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (17)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (18)Nankai University, Tianjin, China, (19)United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (20)Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, China, (21)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (22)State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing, China, (23)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (24)McGill University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada