Intercomparison and characterization of 23 Aethalometers under laboratory and ambient air conditions: procedures and  unit-to-unit variabilities

Cuesta-Mosquera, Andrea; Močnik, Griša; Drinovec, Luka; Müller, Thomas; Pfeifer, Sascha; Minguillón, María Cruz; Briel, Björn; Buckley, Paul; Dudoitis, Vadimas; Fernández-García, Javier; Fernández-Amado, María; Ferreira De Brito, Joel; Riffault, Veronique; Flentje, Harald; Heffernan, Eimear; Kalivitis, Nikolaos; Kalogridis, Athina-Cerise; Keernik, Hannes; Marmureanu, Luminita; Luoma, Krista; Marinoni, Angela; Pikridas, Michael; Schauer, Gerhard; Serfozo, Norbert; Servomaa, Henri; Titos, Gloria; Yus-Díez, Jesús; Zioła, Natalia; Wiedensohler, Alfred

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3195-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3195-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3195-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

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30 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 30 Apr 2021

Intercomparison and characterization of 23 Aethalometers under laboratory and ambient air conditions: procedures and unit-to-unit variabilities

Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera, Griša Močnik, Luka Drinovec, Thomas Müller, Sascha Pfeifer, María Cruz Minguillón, Björn Briel, Paul Buckley, Vadimas Dudoitis, Javier Fernández-García, María Fernández-Amado, Joel Ferreira De Brito, Veronique Riffault, Harald Flentje, Eimear Heffernan, Nikolaos Kalivitis, Athina-Cerise Kalogridis, Hannes Keernik, Luminita Marmureanu, Krista Luoma, Angela Marinoni, Michael Pikridas, Gerhard Schauer, Norbert Serfozo, Henri Servomaa, Gloria Titos, Jesús Yus-Díez, Natalia Zioła, and Alfred Wiedensohler

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RC1: 'Review comment on article amt-2020-344', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Correspondence to referee #1', Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera, 21 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of “Intercomparison and characterization of 23 Aethalometers under laboratory and ambient air conditions: Procedures and unit-to-unit variabilities” by Cuesta-Mosquera et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Correspondence to referee #2', Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera, 21 Dec 2020
RC3: 'Good paper, very small modification suggestions', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Correspondence to referee #3', Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera, 21 Dec 2020

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AR by Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera on behalf of the Authors (18 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Jan 2021) by Hang Su

AR by Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera on behalf of the Authors (05 Feb 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Measurements of black carbon must be conducted with instruments operating in quality-checked and assured conditions to generate reliable and comparable data. Here, 23 Aethalometers monitoring black carbon mass concentrations in European networks were characterized and intercompared. The influence of different aerosol sources, maintenance activities, and the filter material on the instrumental variabilities were investigated. Good agreement and in general low deviations were seen.