Organic aerosols (OA) account for a large fraction of ambient air particulate matter and have strong impacts on air quality and climate. As their sources and atmospheric formation processes, notably for secondary OA (SOA), are still not fully understood, their concentrations are often underestimated by air quality models. This work aimed at improving OA modelling by implementing specific organic molecular marker emissions and formation processes into the chemistry-transport model CHIMERE. It was based on the comparison of model outputs with measurements from field studies performed in the Paris region (suburban site of SIRTA, 25 km SW of Paris) over 2015 and 10 French urban locations in winter 2014-2015. 25 biogenic and anthropogenic SOA ma...