Single-particle measurements of bouncing particles and in situ collection efficiency from an airborne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) with light-scattering detection

Liao, Jin; Brock, Charles A.; Murphy, Daniel M.; Sueper, Donna T.; Welti, André; Middlebrook, Ann M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3801-2017

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Single-particle measurements of bouncing particles and in situ collection efficiency from an airborne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) with light-scattering detection

Jin Liao, Charles A. Brock, Daniel M. Murphy, Donna T. Sueper, André Welti, and Ann M. Middlebrook

Jin Liao

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

now at: Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21046, USA

now at: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamic Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

Charles A. Brock

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4033-4668

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

Daniel M. Murphy

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

Donna T. Sueper

Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA 01821, USA

André Welti

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3549-1212

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

now at: Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Department of Physics, Leipzig, 04318, Germany

Ann M. Middlebrook

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

ann.m.middlebrook@noaa.gov

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2984-6304

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

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The Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) has emerged as a widely used method for measuring the real-time, submicron, nonrefractory aerosol composition. A large uncertainty in accurate measurements with the AMS (the collection efficiency due to particle bounce) is evaluated in this paper using in situ measurements of particle light scattering. Current calculations of the collection efficiency reasonably predict this effect in acidic environments, resulting in more confidence for AMS results.

The Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) has emerged as a widely used method for measuring...