The new instrument using a TC–BC (total carbon–black carbon) method for the online measurement of carbonaceous aerosols

Rigler, Martin; Drinovec, Luka; Lavrič, Gašper; Vlachou, Athanasia; Prévôt, André S. H.; Jaffrezo, Jean Luc; Stavroulas, Iasonas; Sciare, Jean; Burger, Judita; Kranjc, Irena; Turšič, Janja; Hansen, Anthony D. A.; Močnik, Griša

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4333-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4333-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4333-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

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17 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 17 Aug 2020

The new instrument using a TC–BC (total carbon–black carbon) method for the online measurement of carbonaceous aerosols

Martin Rigler, Luka Drinovec, Gašper Lavrič, Athanasia Vlachou, André S. H. Prévôt, Jean Luc Jaffrezo, Iasonas Stavroulas, Jean Sciare, Judita Burger, Irena Kranjc, Janja Turšič, Anthony D. A. Hansen, and Griša Močnik

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RC1: 'AMT 2019-376 Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Point-to-point response to Referee #1 (RC1)', Martin Rigler, 27 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review comments for AMT-2019-376', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Point-to-point response to Referee #2 (RC2)', Martin Rigler, 27 Feb 2020

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AR by Martin Rigler on behalf of the Authors (27 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Mar 2020) by Willy Maenhaut

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (14 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 Mar 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (02 Apr 2020) by Willy Maenhaut

AR by Martin Rigler on behalf of the Authors (12 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Jun 2020) by Willy Maenhaut

The authors have reasonably addressed the comments of anonymous referee #1 and they have modified their manuscript accordingly. However, the comments below should be taken into consideration and several alterations are needed in the main text and the Supplement before the manuscript can be published in AMT.

Main text:
Page 2, line 1: "et al." should not be in italic.
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Pages 24-27, References: Titles of journal articles should be consistently in lower case and not in Title Case.
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Pages 1-2, Table 1: The table heading should be above the table instead of below, and replace "Table 1" in the heading by "Table S1".

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AR by Martin Rigler on behalf of the Authors (09 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Jun 2020) by Willy Maenhaut

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ED: Publish as is (04 Jul 2020) by Willy Maenhaut

AR by Martin Rigler on behalf of the Authors (13 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Carbonaceous aerosols are a large fraction of fine particulate matter. They are extremely diverse, and they directly impact air quality, visibility, cloud formation and public health. In this paper we present a new instrument and new method to measure carbon content in particulate matter in real time and at a high time resolution. The new method was validated in a 1-month winter field campaign in Ljubljana, Slovenia.