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
- Atmospheric autoxidation via fast peroxy radical hydrogen shift reactions. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2019
- New insights into low-NOx isoprene oxidation chemistry. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2016
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journal article
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Fate of isoprene peroxy radical constrains the urban photochemical regime..
Science Advances.
eaea6509.
2026
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Wintertime Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) Hotspot over China Observed from Space: Interpretation of CrIS Results Using Updated GEOS-Chem.
Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
76-82.
2026
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Calculated Absorption Cross Sections and Photolysis Rates of Hydroperoxyaldehydes..
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
111-120.
2026
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Ammonia Observations Over Large North American Cities.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
2025
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The global importance of gas-phase peroxy radical accretion reactions for secondary organic aerosol loading.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
17027-17046.
2025
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A simple, versatile approach for coupling a liquid chromatograph and chemical ionization mass spectrometer for offline analysis of organic aerosol.
Aerosol Research.
557-568.
2025
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Atmospheric Evolution of Brown Carbon from Wildfires in North America.
Environmental Science and Technology.
17145-17159.
2025
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Sources, Sinks, and Oxidation Pathways of Phenolic Compounds in South Korea Constrained Using KORUS-AQ Airborne Observations.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
2025
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Ozone Production Efficiencies in the Three Largest United States Cities from Airborne Measurements.
Environmental Science and Technology.
2025
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Ethanol and Methanol in South Korea and China: Evidence for Large Anthropogenic Emissions Missing from Current Inventories..
456-465.
2025
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Dimethyl sulfide chemistry over the industrial era: comparison of key oxidation mechanisms and long-term observations.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
4083-4106.
2025
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Assessment of Hydrogen's Climate Impact Is Affected by Model OH Biases.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2025
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Advances in an OH reactivity instrument for airborne field measurements.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
881-895.
2025
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Early Season 2023 Wildfires Generated Record-Breaking Surface Ozone Anomalies Across the US Upper Midwest.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2024
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Impact of improved representation of volatile organic compound emissions and production of NOx reservoirs on modeled urban ozone production.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
9555-9572.
2024
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Revising VOC emissions speciation improves the simulation of global background ethane and propane.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
8317-8342.
2024
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Transpacific Transport of Asian Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) Observed from Satellite: Implications for Ozone.
Environmental Science and Technology.
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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Emerging investigator series: aqueous oxidation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol species as a source of atmospheric formic and acetic acids (vol 3, pg 1651, 2023).
Environmental Science: Atmospheres.
282-282.
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.
170-180.
2024
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Identifying and correcting interferences to PTR-ToF-MS measurements of isoprene and other urban volatile organic compounds.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
801-825.
2024
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Atmospheric Gas-Phase Formation of Methanesulfonic Acid.
Environmental Science and Technology.
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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Tropospheric NO2 vertical profiles over South Korea and their relationto oxidant chemistry: implications for geostationary satellite retrievals and the observation of NO2 diurnal variation from space.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
2465-2481.
2023
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Sulfur radical formation from the tropospheric irradiation of aqueous sulfate aerosols.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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 (JGR): Atmospheres.
2022
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H2O2 and CH3OOH (MHP) in the Remote Atmosphere: 2. Physical and Chemical Controls.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
2022
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A machine-learning-guided adaptive algorithm to reduce the computational cost of integrating kinetics in global atmospheric chemistry models: application to GEOS-Chem versions 12.0.0 and 12.9.1.
Geoscientific Model Development.
1677-1687.
2022
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Catalytic role of formaldehyde in particulate matter formation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2022
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Secondary organic aerosol and organic nitrogen yields from the nitrate radical (NO3) oxidation of alpha-pinene from various RO2 fates.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
1467-1482.
2022
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Development and evaluation of a new compact mechanism for aromatic oxidation in atmospheric models.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
18351-18374.
2021
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Gas-Phase Oxidation Rates and Products of 1,2-Dihydroxy Isoprene.
Environmental Science and Technology.
14294-14304.
2021
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Aqueous Photochemistry of 2-Methyltetrol and Erythritol as Sources of Formic Acid and Acetic Acid in the Atmosphere.
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
1265-1277.
2021
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Towards a chemical mechanism of the oxidation of aqueous sulfur dioxide via isoprene hydroxyl hydroperoxides (ISOPOOH).
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
8999-9008.
2021
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Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China.
Nature Geoscience.
389-+.
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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Ozone pollution in the North China Plain spreading into the late-winter haze season.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2021
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The Global Budget of Atmospheric Methanol: New Constraints on Secondary, Oceanic, and Terrestrial Sources.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): 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 the United States of America.
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 (JGR): 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.
2020
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Can Isoprene Oxidation Explain High Concentrations of Atmospheric Formic and Acetic Acid over Forests?.
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
730-740.
2020
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An Expanded Definition of the Odd Oxygen Family for Tropospheric Ozone Budgets: Implications for Ozone Lifetime and Stratospheric Influence.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2020
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Thermalized Epoxide Formation in the Atmosphere.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
10620-10630.
2019
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Sulfate Formation via Cloud Processing from Isoprene Hydroxyl Hydroperoxides (ISOPOOH).
Environmental Science and Technology.
12476-12484.
2019
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A two-pollutant strategy for improving ozone and particulate air quality in China.
Nature Geoscience.
906-+.
2019
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A new model mechanism for atmospheric oxidation of isoprene: global effects on oxidants, nitrogen oxides, organic products, and secondary organic aerosol.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
9613-9640.
2019
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Impacts of household sources on air pollution at village and regional scales in India.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
7719-7742.
2019
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Low-volatility compounds contribute significantly to isoprene secondary organic aerosol (SOA) under high-NOx conditions.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
7255-7278.
2019
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The Importance of Peroxy Radical Hydrogen-Shift Reactions in Atmospheric Isoprene Oxidation.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
920-932.
2019
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Anthropogenic drivers of 2013-2017 trends in summer surface ozone in China.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
422-427.
2019
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Kinetics and Product Yields of the OH Initiated Oxidation of Hydroxymethyl Hydroperoxide.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
6292-6302.
2018
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Photopolarimetric Sensitivity to Black Carbon Content of Wildfire Smoke: Results From the 2016 ImPACT-PM Field Campaign.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
5376-5396.
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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Isoprene photochemistry over the Amazon rainforest (vol 113, pg 6125, 2016).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
E8358-E8358.
2016
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Contrasting cloud composition between coupled and decoupled marine boundary layer clouds.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
11679-11691.
2016
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Isoprene photochemistry over the Amazon rainforest.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
6125-6130.
2016
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Atmospheric fates of Criegee intermediates in the ozonolysis of isoprene.
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP.
10241-10254.
2016
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Time-resolved molecular characterization of organic aerosols by PILS plus UPLC/ESI-Q-TOFMS.
Atmospheric Environment.
180-189.
2016
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Kinetics and Products of the Reaction of the First-Generation Isoprene Hydroxy Hydroperoxide (ISOPOOH) with OH.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
1441-1451.
2016
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Production and Fate of C4 Dihydroxycarbonyl Compounds from Isoprene Oxidation.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
106-117.
2016
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Atmospheric Fate of Methyl Vinyl Ketone: Peroxy Radical Reactions with NO and HO2.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
4562-4572.
2015
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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 - PCCP.
17914-17926.
2015
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Gas Phase Production and Loss of Isoprene Epoxydiols.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
1237-1246.
2014
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Organic aerosol formation from the reactive uptake of isoprene epoxydiols (IEPOX) onto non-acidified inorganic seeds.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
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 (ACP).
13531-13549.
2014
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Fate of isoprene peroxy radical constrains the urban photochemical regime..
Science Advances.
eaea6509.
2026
Teaching
courses taught
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EVEN 4830 - Special Topics
Primary Instructor - Spring 2025
May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. -
MCEN 1024 - Chemistry for Energy and Materials Science
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
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 CHEM 1113, CHEM 1400, CHEN 1201, and CHEN 1211. -
MCEN 4228 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
Primary Instructor - Spring 2025
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest. May be repeated up to 15 credit hours. Same as MCEN 5228. -
MCEN 5228 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
Primary Instructor - Spring 2025 / Fall 2025
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest. May be repeated up to 30 credit hours.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 2017
- B.S., Davidson College 2012
International Activities
geographic focus
- Germany Country