Evaluation of equivalent black carbon source apportionment using observations from Switzerland between 2008 and 2018

Grange, Stuart K.; Lötscher, Hanspeter; Fischer, Andrea; Emmenegger, Lukas; Hueglin, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1867-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1867-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1867-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

Research article

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14 Apr 2020

Research article |

| 14 Apr 2020

Evaluation of equivalent black carbon source apportionment using observations from Switzerland between 2008 and 2018

Stuart K. Grange, Hanspeter Lötscher, Andrea Fischer, Lukas Emmenegger, and Christoph Hueglin

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RC1: 'Review of Grange et al., “Evaluation of equivalent black carbon (EBC) source apportionment using observations from Switzerland between 2008-2018”', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Author responses to Referee #2’s comments of amt-2019-351', Stuart Grange, 29 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review of Evaluation of equivalent black carbon (EBC) source appointment using observations from Switzerland between 2008 and 2018 by S. Grange et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Author responses to Referee #3’s comments of amt-2019-351', Stuart Grange, 29 Jan 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Stuart Grange on behalf of the Authors (29 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Feb 2020) by Pierre Herckes

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (14 Feb 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (14 Feb 2020) by Pierre Herckes

AR by Stuart Grange on behalf of the Authors (15 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Mar 2020) by Pierre Herckes

AR by Stuart Grange on behalf of the Authors (17 Mar 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Black carbon (BC) is an important atmospheric pollutant and can be monitored by instruments called aethalometers. A pragmatic data processing technique called the aethalometer model can be used to apportion aethalometer observations into traffic and woodburning components. We present an exploratory data analysis evaluating the aethalometer model and use the outputs for BC trend analysis across Switzerland. The aethalometer model's robustness and utility for such analyses is discussed.