Abstract
On 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling installation began to spew enormous quantities of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Much of the oil that escaped floated to the sea surface, where it began to evaporate. Based on airborne measurements of the gaseous and aerosol composition of air above the oil spill, de Gouw et al. (p. [1295][1]; see the Perspective by [Coe][2] ) demonstrate the heretofore poorly documented importance of compounds of intermediate volatility in secondary organic compounds in secondary organic aerosol formation, a process that has been suggested to be a significant source of organic aerosols in the atmosphere. [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1200320 [2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1203019
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