Aerosol size distributions during the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom): methods, uncertainties, and data products

Brock, Charles A.; Williamson, Christina; Kupc, Agnieszka; Froyd, Karl D.; Erdesz, Frank; Wagner, Nicholas; Richardson, Matthews; Schwarz, Joshua P.; Gao, Ru-Shan; Katich, Joseph M.; Campuzano-Jost, Pedro; Nault, Benjamin A.; Schroder, Jason C.; Jimenez, Jose L.; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Dollner, Maximilian; Bui, ThaoPaul; Murphy, Daniel M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3081-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3081-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3081-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

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06 Jun 2019

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Aerosol size distributions during the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom): methods, uncertainties, and data products

Charles A. Brock, Christina Williamson, Agnieszka Kupc, Karl D. Froyd, Frank Erdesz, Nicholas Wagner, Matthews Richardson, Joshua P. Schwarz, Ru-Shan Gao, Joseph M. Katich, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Benjamin A. Nault, Jason C. Schroder, Jose L. Jimenez, Bernadett Weinzierl, Maximilian Dollner, ThaoPaul Bui, and Daniel M. Murphy

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RC1: 'Review to "Aerosol size distributions during the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission: methods, uncertainties, and data products"', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Charles Brock, 08 May 2019
  - RC3: 'Reply to Authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 May 2019
    - AC3: 'Response to Reply', Charles Brock, 09 May 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript amt-2019-44', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Apr 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Charles Brock, 08 May 2019

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AR by Charles Brock on behalf of the Authors (21 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 May 2019) by Pierre Herckes

AR by Charles Brock on behalf of the Authors (21 May 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

From 2016 to 2018 a NASA aircraft profiled the atmosphere from 180 m to ~12 km from the Arctic to the Antarctic over both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This program, ATom, sought to sample atmospheric chemical composition to compare with global climate models. We describe the how measurements of particulate matter were made during ATom, and show that the instrument performance was excellent. Data from this project can be used with confidence to evaluate models and compare with satellites.