Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6723-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6723-2021
Research article
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20 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 20 Oct 2021

Estimates of mass absorption cross sections of black carbon for filter-based absorption photometers in the Arctic

Sho Ohata, Tatsuhiro Mori, Yutaka Kondo, Sangeeta Sharma, Antti Hyvärinen, Elisabeth Andrews, Peter Tunved, Eija Asmi, John Backman, Henri Servomaa, Daniel Veber, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Stergios Vratolis, Radovan Krejci, Paul Zieger, Makoto Koike, Yugo Kanaya, Atsushi Yoshida, Nobuhiro Moteki, Yongjing Zhao, Yutaka Tobo, Junji Matsushita, and Naga Oshima

Data sets

Black carbon mass concentrations and aerosol light absorption coefficents measured at Arctic sites S. Ohata, T. Mori, Y. Kondo, S. Sharma, A. Hyvarinen, E. Andrews, P. Tunved, E. Asmi, J. Backman, H. Servomaa, D. Veber, K. Eleftheriadis, S. Vratolis, R. Krejci, P. Zieger, M. Koike, Y. Kanaya, A. Yoshida, N. Moteki, Y. Zhao, Y. Tobo, J. Matsushita, and N. Oshima https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/dataset/A20201120-001

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Reliable values of mass absorption cross sections (MACs) of black carbon (BC) are required to determine mass concentrations of BC at Arctic sites using different types of filter-based absorption photometers. We successfully estimated MAC values for these instruments through comparison with independent measurements of BC by a continuous soot monitoring system called COSMOS. These MAC values are consistent with each other and applicable to study spatial and temporal variation in BC in the Arctic.