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- Title
Quantification of aerosol chemical composition using continuous single particle measurements.
- Authors
Jeong, C. -H.; McGuire, M. L.; Godri, K. J.; Slowik, J. G.; Rehbein, P. J. G.; Evans, G. J.
- Abstract
Mass concentrations of particulate matter (PM) chemical components were determined from data for 0.3 to 3.0 µm particles measured by an Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS) data at an urban and rural site. Hourly-averaged concentrations of nitrate, sulphate, ammonium, organic carbon, and elemental carbon, estimated based on scaled ATOFMS peak intensities of corresponding ion marker species, were compared with collocated chemical composition measurements by an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS), a Gas-Particle Ion Chromatograph (GPIC), and a Sunset Lab field OCEC analyzer. The highest correlation was found for nitrate, with correlation coefficients (Pearson r) of 0.89 and 0.85 at the urban and rural sites, respectively. ATOFMS mass calibration factors, determined for the urban site, were used to calculate mass concentrations of the major PM chemical components at the rural site. Mass reconstruction using this ATOFMS based composition data agreed very well with the total PM mass measured at the rural site. Size distributions of the ten main types of particles were resolved for the rural site and the mass composition of each particle type was determined in terms of sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, organic carbon and elemental carbon. This is the first study to estimate hourly mass concentrations of individual aerosol components and the mass composition of individual particle-types based on ATOFMS single particle measurements.
- Subjects
PARTICULATE matter; AEROSOLS; TIME-of-flight mass spectrometry; NITRATES; SULFATES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis; STATISTICAL correlation; CALIBRATION
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1219
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acpd-11-1219-2011