keywords
- volatile organic compounds, secondary organic aerosol, biogenic emissions, anthropogenic emissions, chemical transport modeling
- Contact Info
Bates, Kelvin
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
- Aerosol Science
- Air Pollution
- Analytical Chemistry
- Atmosphere: Composition & Disturbance
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Atmospheric Deposition
- Atmospheric Models
- Atmospheric Remote Sensing
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Biogeochemistry
- Chemical Reactions
- Chemical Sciences
- Chemical Synthesis
- Climate Change
- Environmental Chemistry
- Greenhouse Effects
- Greenhouse Gases
- Marine Atmospheric Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Ozone
- Physical Chemistry
Research
Publications
selected publications
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conference proceeding
- New insights into low-NOx isoprene oxidation chemistry. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2016
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journal article
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Transpacific Transport of Asian Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) Observed from Satellite: Implications for Ozone.
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
9760-9769.
2024
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Impacts of updated reaction kinetics on the global GEOS-Chem simulation of atmospheric chemistry.
Geoscientific Model Development.
1511-1524.
2024
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Size-dependent depositional loss of inorganic, organic, and mixed composition particles to Teflon chamber walls under various environmental and chemical conditions.
Aerosol Science and Technology.
2024
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Atmospheric Gas-Phase Formation of Methanesulfonic Acid.
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
21168-21177.
2023
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Emerging investigator series: aqueous oxidation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol species as a source of atmospheric formic and acetic acids.
Environmental Science: Atmospheres.
1651-1664.
2023
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Overview of ICARUS-A Curated, Open Access, Online Repository for Atmospheric Simulation Chamber Data.
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry .
1235-1246.
2023
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Sulfur radical formation from the tropospheric irradiation of aqueous sulfate aerosols..
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
e2202857119.
2022
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An Inversion Framework for Optimizing Non-Methane VOC Emissions Using Remote Sensing and Airborne Observations in Northeast Asia During the KORUS-AQ Field Campaign.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2022
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H2O2 and CH3OOH (MHP) in the Remote Atmosphere: 2. Physical and Chemical Controls.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2022
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Gas-Phase Oxidation Rates and Products of 1,2-Dihydroxy Isoprene..
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
14294-14304.
2021
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Top-down estimates of anthropogenic VOC emissions in South Korea using formaldehyde vertical column densities from aircraft during the KORUS-AQ campaign.
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
2021
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The Global Budget of Atmospheric Methanol: New Constraints on Secondary, Oceanic, and Terrestrial Sources.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2021
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Rapid hydrolysis of tertiary isoprene nitrate efficiently removes NOx from the atmosphere.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
33011-33016.
2020
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Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation.
Nature.
225-+.
2020
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Global Atmospheric Budget of Acetone: Air-Sea Exchange and the Contribution to Hydroxyl Radicals.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2020
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Characterization of Aerosol Hygroscopicity Over the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Impacts on Prediction of CCN and Stratocumulus Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations..
Earth and Space Science.
e2020EA001098.
2020
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Thermalized Epoxide Formation in the Atmosphere..
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.
10620-10630.
2019
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Sulfate Formation via Cloud Processing from Isoprene Hydroxyl Hydroperoxides (ISOPOOH)..
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
12476-12484.
2019
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Low-volatility compounds contribute significantly to isoprene secondary organic aerosol (SOA) under high-NOx conditions.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
7255-7278.
2019
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The Importance of Peroxy Radical Hydrogen-Shift Reactions in Atmospheric Isoprene Oxidation..
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.
920-932.
2019
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Kinetics and Product Yields of the OH Initiated Oxidation of Hydroxymethyl Hydroperoxide..
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.
6292-6302.
2018
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Gas-Phase Reactions of Isoprene and Its Major Oxidation Products.
Chemical Reviews.
3337-3390.
2018
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A multi-year data set on aerosol-cloud-precipitation-meteorology interactions for marine stratocumulus clouds.
Scientific Data.
2018
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Contrasting cloud composition between coupled and decoupled marine boundary layer clouds.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
11679-11691.
2016
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Atmospheric fates of Criegee intermediates in the ozonolysis of isoprene.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
10241-10254.
2016
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Mechanism of the hydroxyl radical oxidation of methacryloyl peroxynitrate (MPAN) and its pathway toward secondary organic aerosol formation in the atmosphere.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
17914-17926.
2015
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Organic aerosol formation from the reactive uptake of isoprene epoxydiols (IEPOX) onto non-acidified inorganic seeds.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
3497-3510.
2014
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Overview of the Focused Isoprene eXperiment at the California Institute of Technology (FIXCIT): mechanistic chamber studies on the oxidation of biogenic compounds.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
13531-13549.
2014
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Transpacific Transport of Asian Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) Observed from Satellite: Implications for Ozone.
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
9760-9769.
2024
Teaching
courses taught
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MCEN 1024 - Chemistry for Energy and Materials Science
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
Covers the basic physical and chemical fundamentals underlying the disciplines of energy and materials, with a focus on topics relevant to your mechanical engineering education. These fundamentals include atomic structure, stoichiometry, the periodic table, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry and chemical reactions. Recommended prerequisite: one year of high school chemistry. Degree credit not granted for this course and CHEN 1201, CHEN 1211, or CHEM 1113.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 2017
- B.S., Davidson College 2012