Reactive nitrogen fate in the southeastern U.S.: Preliminary results from the SOAS campaign

High biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and regional NOx pollution influence make the southeastern U.S. ideal for studying the fate of reactive nitrogen. At the 2013 Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) campaign, we measured a variety of reactive nitrogen species using a Monitor of AeRosols and Gasses in Ambient air (MARGA) and two cavity ringdown spectrometers (NO, NO2, O3, NOy and NO3, N2O5 CRDS). Initial analysis suggests fast reaction of anthropogenic NO3 with BVOC produces gas- and aerosol-phase organonitrates from the ambient mix of predominantly isoprene, alpha-pinene, beta-pinene and limonene. The inorganic aerosol composition is observed to be acidic, with excess of both SO42- and NO3- under the high-RH conditions of the southeastern U.S. summer. Episodic changes in inorganic composition will be compared to organonitrate production to assess regional reactive nitrogen fate.