New paper on PAH, SOA and BC out in ES&T

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Our new paper, "Assessing the Influence of Secondary Organic versus Primary Carbonaceous Aerosols on Long-Range Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Transport," is now out in ES&T. We tested the hypothesis that PAHs are trapped in secondary organic aerosol upon emission, facilitating long-range transport. We found that this process failed to reproduce measurement constraints; instead, a trapping mechanism in which black carbon played a role was more likely. Details can be found at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es405219r.