Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2631-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2631-2019
Research article
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07 May 2019
Research article |  | 07 May 2019

Preparation of primary standard mixtures for atmospheric oxygen measurements with less than 1 µmol mol−1 uncertainty for oxygen molar fractions

Nobuyuki Aoki, Shigeyuki Ishidoya, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Takuro Watanabe, Takuya Shimosaka, and Shohei Murayama

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AR by Nobuyuki Aoki on behalf of the Authors (16 Nov 2018)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Dec 2018) by Markus Leuenberger
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Dec 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (18 Mar 2019)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (18 Mar 2019) by Markus Leuenberger
AR by Nobuyuki Aoki on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2019)
ED: Publish as is (01 Apr 2019) by Markus Leuenberger
AR by Nobuyuki Aoki on behalf of the Authors (11 Apr 2019)  Manuscript 
Short summary
Observation of atmospheric O2 requires highly precise standard gas mixtures with uncertainty of less than 1 ppm for the O2 mole fraction or 5 per meg for O2 / N2. The uncertainty had not been achieved due unknown uncertainty factors in mass determination of the filled source gases. We first developed the primary standard mixtures with 1 ppm for the O2 mole fraction or 5 per meg by identifying and reducing the unknown uncertainty factors.