Sponsor
This work was supported by the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), including grant no. DE-SC0008937.
Published In
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2018
Subjects
2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study, Atmospheric aerosols -- Spectra, Spectrum analysis, Air -- Pollution, Cavity-ringdown spectroscopy
Abstract
Multi-wavelength in situ aerosol extinction, absorption and scattering measurements made at two ground sites during the 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) are analyzed using a spectral deconvolution method that allows extraction of particle-sizerelated information, including the fraction of extinction produced by the fine-mode particles and the effective radius of the fine mode. The spectral deconvolution method is typically applied to analysis of remote sensing measurements. Here, its application to in situ measurements allows for comparison with more direct measurement methods and validation of the retrieval approach. Overall, the retrieved finemode fraction and effective radius compare well with other in situ measurements, including size distribution measurements and scattering and absorption measurements made separately for PM1 and PM10, although there were some periods during which the different methods yielded different results. One key contributor to differences between the results obtained is the alternative, spectrally based definitions of “fine” and “coarse” modes from the optical methods, relative to instruments that use a physically defined cut point. These results indicate that for campaigns where size, composition and multi-wavelength optical property measurements are made, comparison of the results can result in closure or can identify unusual circumstances. The comparison here also demonstrates that in situ multi-wavelength optical property measurements can be used to determine information about particle size distributions in situations where direct size distribution measurements are not available.
DOI
10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29643
Citation Details
Atkinson, Dean B., Pekour, Mikhail, Chand, Duli, Radney, James G., Kolesar, Katheryn R., Zhang, Qi, Setyan, Ari, O'Neill, Norman T., & Cappa, Christopher D.. Using spectral methods to obtain particle size information from optical data: applications to measurements from CARES 2010. United States. doi:10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018.
Description
Originally appeared in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
May be found at https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018