We used a global chemistry-climate model, the Community Atmosphere Model with Chemistry (CAM-Chem; Lamarque et al. and Saiz-Lopez et al. ( )) to quantify the potential effects of the derived oceanic flux of benzene and toluene on atmospheric composition. CAM-Chem is designed to perform both, climate simulations (with online simulation of climate system) and simulations with specified dynamics (nudged to offline meteorology fields). The implementation of SOA formation embedded in CAM-Chem is described in Lamarque et al. and Lack et al. .