Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

Sintermann, J.; Neftel, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3225-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3225-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3225-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 11

Ideas and perspectives

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03 Jun 2015

Ideas and perspectives |

| 03 Jun 2015

Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

J. Sintermann and A. Neftel

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RC C688: 'Comments on vegetation-generated amines for NPF', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Mar 2015
RC C1377: 'comments on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation', Mari Pihlatie, 17 Apr 2015
AC C1792: 'Response to referee#1 and Mari Philatie', Jörg Sintermann, 29 Apr 2015

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AR by Jörg Sintermann on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2015) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (05 May 2015) by Franz X. Meixner

AR by Jörg Sintermann on behalf of the Authors (18 May 2015)

Short summary

In this article we summarise recent science, which shows how airborne amines, specifically methylamines (MAs), play a key role in atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) by stabilising small molecule clusters. Agricultural emissions are assumed to constitute the most important MA source, but given the short atmospheric residence time of MAs, they can hardly have a direct impact on NFP events observed in remote regions. This leads us to the presentation of existing knowledge focussing on natural