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            https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3801-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3801-2017
                    © Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under 
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Single-particle measurements of bouncing particles and in situ collection efficiency from an airborne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) with light-scattering detection
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
                                            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
                                            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
                                            
                                    
                                            NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
                                        
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Short summary
            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...