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Peter F. DeCarlo is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and atmospheric science. DeCarlo's work spans several key subfields including environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and automotive engineering.

The primary topics addressed in their research include air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality monitoring and forecasting, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, vehicle emissions and performance, odor and emission control technologies, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Recent publications by Peter F. DeCarlo cover a range of environmental and atmospheric research topics. These include:

  • Indoor Particulate Matter during HOMEChem: Concentrations, Size Distributions, and Exposures (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Surface reservoirs dominate dynamic gas-surface partitioning of many indoor air constituents (2020, Science Advances)
  • Multiphase Chemistry Controls Inorganic Chlorinated and Nitrogenated Compounds in Indoor Air during Bleach Cleaning (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality (2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)

Their frequent coauthors include Ellis S. Robinson, Delphine K. Farmer, Erin F. Katz, William R. Simpson, and Allen H. Goldstein.

Peter F. DeCarlo's research outputs are predominantly published in several scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • Aerosol Science and Technology
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically-influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes

    Q. Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;J. D. Allan

  • Field-Deployable, High-Resolution, Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    Peter F. DeCarlo;Joel R. Kimmel;Achim Trimborn;Megan J. Northway

  • Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer

    M. R. Canagaratna;J. T. Jayne;J. L. Jimenez;J. D. Allan

  • O/C and OM/OC Ratios of Primary, Secondary, and Ambient Organic Aerosols with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    Allison C. Aiken;Peter F. DeCarlo;Jesse H. Kroll;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • Particle Morphology and Density Characterization by Combined Mobility and Aerodynamic Diameter Measurements. Part 1: Theory

    Peter F. DeCarlo;Jay G. Slowik;Douglas R. Worsnop;Paul Davidovits

  • Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    N.L. Ng;M.R. Canagaratna;Q. Zhang;Q. Zhang;J.L. Jimenez

  • A New Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (TOF-AMS)—Instrument Description and First Field Deployment

    Frank Drewnick;Silke S. Hings;Peter DeCarlo;John T. Jayne

  • Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition

    P. B. Russell;R. W. Bergstrom;Y. Shinozuka;A. D. Clarke

  • Pollutant emissions and energy efficiency under controlled conditions for household biomass cookstoves and implications for metrics useful in setting international test standards.

    James Jetter;Yongxin Zhao;Kirk R. Smith;Bernine Khan

  • Elemental Analysis of Organic Species with Electron Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

    Allison C. Aiken;Peter F. DeCarlo;Jose L. Jimenez

  • A simplified description of the evolution of organic aerosol composition in the atmosphere

    C. L. Heald;J. H. Kroll;J. L. Jimenez;K. S. Docherty

  • Emissions from biomass burning in the Yucatan

    R. J. Yokelson;J. D. Crounse;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;T. Karl

  • Identification and quantification of organic aerosol from cooking and other sources in Barcelona using aerosol mass spectrometer data

    C. Mohr;C. Mohr;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;M. F. Heringa;R. Chirico;R. Chirico

  • Mexico City aerosol analysis during MILAGRO using high resolution aerosol mass spectrometry at the urban supersite (T0) – Part 1: Fine particle composition and organic source apportionment

    Allison Aiken;Allison Aiken;D. Salcedo;Michael J. Cubison;J. Huffman

  • Wintertime aerosol chemical composition and source apportionment of the organic fraction in the metropolitan area of Paris

    M. Crippa;P. F. Decarlo;P. F. Decarlo;J. G. Slowik;C. Mohr;C. Mohr

  • Fast airborne aerosol size and chemistry measurements above Mexico City and Central Mexico during the MILAGRO campaign

    P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;E. J. Dunlea;J. R. Kimmel;A. C. Aiken

  • Organic aerosol components derived from 25 AMS data sets across Europe using a consistent ME-2 based source apportionment approach

    M. Crippa;F. Canonaco;V.A. Lanz;M. Äijälä

  • Characterization of ambient aerosols in Mexico City during the MCMA-2003 campaign with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry: results from the CENICA Supersite

    D. Salcedo;D. Salcedo;T. B. Onasch;K. Dzepina;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Relating hygroscopicity and composition of organic aerosol particulate matter

    J. Duplissy;J. Duplissy;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;J. Dommen;M. R. Alfarra

  • Particle Morphology and Density Characterization by Combined Mobility and Aerodynamic Diameter Measurements. Part 2: Application to Combustion-Generated Soot Aerosols as a Function of Fuel Equivalence Ratio

    Jay G. Slowik;K. Stainken;Paul Davidovits;L. R. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Urs Baltensperger
Urs Baltensperger Paul Scherrer Institute
André S. H. Prévôt
André S. H. Prévôt Paul Scherrer Institute
Allison C. Aiken
Allison C. Aiken Los Alamos National Laboratory
Claudia Mohr
Claudia Mohr ETH Zurich
I. M. Ulbrich
I. M. Ulbrich University of Colorado Boulder
Edward J. Dunlea
Edward J. Dunlea University of Colorado Boulder
Timothy B. Onasch
Timothy B. Onasch Boston College
Monica Crippa
Monica Crippa Directorate-General Joint Research Centre

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