About SOA species in CMAQ v5.3

Hi HyeonYeong,

Typically we assume that the species you listed are treated as SOA since they are oxygenated and would presumably be detected by an AMS as OOA and lumped with the SOA mass in an analysis like that.

However, it is an ongoing debate whether or not to treat oxidized POA as SOA or not. If you like, you can try both ways to see what makes sense with the measurements you are comparing to. My default would be to assume they are SOA though.

Best wishes,
Ben

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