“…Ambient measurements taking advantage of gas chromatographic techniques usually report isoprene, α-pinene, β-pinene and limonene (Apel et al, 1999;Bouvier-Brown et al, 2009;Greenberg et al, 2004Greenberg et al, , 1999Hopkins et al, 2011;Mallet et al, 2016;Misztal et al, 2010;Saxton et al, 2007) as the major BVOCs. Only a few GC instruments have been optimized to 30 provide a larger speciation of monoterpenes (Pankow et al, 2012;Jones et al, 2014;Hakola et al, 2006Hakola et al, , 2017 and even https://doi.org /10.5194/amt-2019-224 Preprint. Discussion started: 11 July 2019 c Author(s) 2019.…”