Fast time response measurements of particle size distributions in the 3–60&thinsp;nm size range with the nucleation mode aerosol size spectrometer

Williamson, Christina; Kupc, Agnieszka; Wilson, James; Gesler, David W.; Reeves, J. Michael; Erdesz, Frank; McLaughlin, Richard; Brock, Charles A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3491-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3491–3509, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3491-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3491–3509, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3491-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

Research article 19 Jun 2018

Research article | 19 Jun 2018

Fast time response measurements of particle size distributions in the 3–60 nm size range with the nucleation mode aerosol size spectrometer

Christina Williamson et al.

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RC1: 'paper review', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Authors’ response to reviewer 1 comment', C. Williamson, 26 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Williamson et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'Response to RC2 review', C. Williamson, 26 Apr 2018
RC3: 'Very Good', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 Mar 2018
- AC3: 'Response to RC3 review', C. Williamson, 26 Apr 2018

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AR by Christina Williamson on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 May 2018) by Eric C. Apel

Short summary

We describe the operating principle, design and performance of the Nucleation Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer (NMASS), an instrument composed of 5 condensation particle counters measuring size selected particle concentrations between 3 and 60 nm. An inversion to recover size distributions from the data is evaluated. Calibrations of a 2-NMASS system for measuring size distributions on the NASA Atmospheric Tomography Mission, and examples of its in-flight performance are presented.