Table 2 The model parameter default values from Weschler and Nazaroff [16] and their changed values, and the values of the new parameters in Eq. 3 as used in the scenario without an emission episode in this work

Initial thickness of surface film (nm)

2

c. 0

TSP (total suspended airborne particle concentration) (µg m⁻³)

20

5

Volume fraction of organic matter in PM

0.4

0.1

Total air concentration (in gas + particles) of sorbing SVOC group 3 (µg m⁻³)

10

40

Time resolution (h⁻¹)

1

0.5*

K_w (% with no direct physical meaning) (Eq. 3)

–

550

K_we (% with direct physical meaning) (Eq. 3)

–

4.5

k (h⁻¹) (Eq. 3)

–

0.025