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Abigail R. Koss is affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, air quality monitoring and forecasting, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Abigail R. Koss has published research across various peer-reviewed venues. Key publication platforms include Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Environmental Science & Technology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Mass Spectrometry, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Frequent collaborators in their research include J. A. de Gouw, C. Warneke, Matthew M. Coggon, Kanako Sekimoto, and Jesse H. Kroll, reflecting ongoing partnerships that have contributed extensively to studies in atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Significant published works by Abigail R. Koss include:

  • Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds are Important Precursors of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Biomass-Burning Emissions, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • A biogenic secondary organic aerosol source of cirrus ice nucleating particles, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Biomass-burning-derived particles from a wide variety of fuels - Part 2: Effects of photochemical aging on particle optical and chemical properties, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • The nitrogen budget of laboratory-simulated western US wildfires during the FIREX 2016 Fire Lab study, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • Effects of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation from isoprene and monoterpenes in the southeastern United States

    Lu Xu;Hongyu Guo;Christopher M. Boyd;Mitchel Klein

  • Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Atmospheric Sciences

    Bin Yuan;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke;Matthew Coggon;Matthew Coggon

  • Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for Use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry.

    Jordan Krechmer;Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Manuel Hutterli

  • High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

    Peter M. Edwards;Steven S. Brown;James M. Roberts;Ravan Ahmadov

  • Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification, quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory experiment

    Abigail R. Koss;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Jessica B. Gilman;Vanessa Selimovic

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States

    Haofei Zhang;Haofei Zhang;Lindsay D. Yee;Ben H. Lee;Michael P. Curtis

  • Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry.

    Matthew M Coggon;Matthew M Coggon;Georgios I Gkatzelis;Georgios I Gkatzelis;Brian C McDonald;Jessica B Gilman

  • A large and ubiquitous source of atmospheric formic acid

    D. B. Millet;M. Baasandorj;D. K. Farmer;J. A. Thornton

  • Calculation of the sensitivity of proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) for organic trace gases using molecular properties

    Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Shao-Meng Li;Bin Yuan;Bin Yuan;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss

  • Characterization of a real-time tracer for isoprene epoxydiols-derived secondary organic aerosol (IEPOX-SOA) from aerosol mass spectrometer measurements

    W. W. Hu;P. Campuzano-Jost;B. B. Palm;D. A. Day

  • Atmospheric fates of Criegee intermediates in the ozonolysis of isoprene

    Tran B. Nguyen;Geoffrey S. Tyndall;John D. Crounse;Alexander P. Teng

  • Organic nitrate aerosol formation via NO 3 + biogenic volatile organic compounds in the southeastern United States

    B. R. Ayres;H. M. Allen;H. M. Allen;D. C. Draper;D. C. Draper;S. S. Brown

  • High- and low-temperature pyrolysis profiles describe volatile organic compound emissions from western US wildfire fuels

    Kanako Sekimoto;Abigail R. Koss;Jessica B. Gilman;Vanessa Selimovic

  • Atmospheric amines and ammonia measured with a chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS)

    Y. You;V. P. Kanawade;J. A. de Gouw;Alex B. Guenther;Alex B. Guenther

  • Understanding high wintertime ozone pollution events in an oil- and natural gas-producing region of the western US

    Ravan Ahmadov;Ravan Ahmadov;S. McKeen;S. McKeen;M. Trainer;R Banta

  • Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds are Important Precursors of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Biomass-Burning Emissions.

    Ali Akherati;Yicong He;Matthew M. Coggon;Matthew M. Coggon;Abigail Koss

  • Diurnal Variability and Emission Pattern of Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) from the Application of Personal Care Products in Two North American Cities.

    Matthew M. Coggon;Matthew M. Coggon;Brian C. McDonald;Brian C. McDonald;Alexander Vlasenko;Patrick R. Veres;Patrick R. Veres

  • Emissions of nitrogen‐containing organic compounds from the burning of herbaceous and arboraceous biomass: Fuel composition dependence and the variability of commonly used nitrile tracers

    Matthew M. Coggon;Matthew M. Coggon;Patrick R. Veres;Patrick R. Veres;Bin Yuan;Bin Yuan;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of atmospheric organosulfates in Centreville, Alabama

    Anusha P. S. Hettiyadura;Thilina Jayarathne;Karsten Baumann;Allen H. Goldstein

  • Joint Impacts of Acidity and Viscosity on the Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Isoprene Epoxydiols (IEPOX) in Phase Separated Particles

    Yue Zhang;Yuzhi Chen;Ziying Lei;Nicole E. Olson

  • OH chemistry of non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) emitted from laboratory and ambient biomass burning smoke: evaluating the influence of furans and oxygenated aromatics on ozone and secondary NMOG formation

    Matthew M. Coggon;Matthew M. Coggon;Christopher Y. Lim;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bin Yuan
Bin Yuan Jinan University
Brian M. Lerner
Brian M. Lerner Aerodyne Research
J. A. de Gouw
J. A. de Gouw University of Colorado Boulder
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Peter Edwards
Peter Edwards University of York

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