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- Title
Efficacy of a portable, moderate-resolution, fast-scanning DMA for ambient aerosol size distribution measurements.
- Authors
Amanatidis, Stavros; Yuanlong Huang; Pushpawela, Buddhi; Schulze, Benjamin C.; Kenseth, Christopher M.; Ward, Ryan X.; Seinfeld, John H.; Hering, Susanne V.; Flagan, Richard C.
- Abstract
Ambient aerosol size distributions obtained with a compact, scanning mobility analyzer, the "Spider" DMA, are compared to those obtained with a conventional mobility analyzer, with specific attention to the effect of mobility resolution on the measured size distribution parameters. The Spider is a 12-cm diameter radial differential mobility analyzer that spans the 10–500 nm size range with 30s mobility scans. It achieves its compact size by operating at a nominal mobility resolution 푅 = 3 (sheath flow = 0.9 L/min, aerosol flow = 0.3 L/min), in place of the higher sheath-to-aerosol flow commonly used. The question addressed here is whether the lower resolution is sufficient to capture the dynamics and key characteristics of ambient aerosol size distributions. The Spider, operated at 푅 = 3 with 30s up and down scans, was collocated with a TSI 3081 long-column mobility analyzer, operated at 푅 = 10 with a 360s sampling duty cycle. Ambient aerosol data were collected over 26 consecutive days of continuous operation, in Pasadena, CA. Over the 20-500 nm size range, the two instruments exhibit excellent correlation in the total particle number concentrations and geometric mean diameters, with regression slopes of 1.13 and 1.00, respectively. Our results suggest that particle sizing at a lower resolution than typically employed is sufficient in obtaining the key properties of ambient size distributions.
- Subjects
PASADENA (Calif.); AEROSOLS; SIZE
- Publication
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1867-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/amt-2021-59