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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7381-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7381-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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26 Nov 2021
Research article |
| 26 Nov 2021
| 26 Nov 2021
Undersizing of aged African biomass burning aerosol by an ultra-high-sensitivity aerosol spectrometer
Steven G. Howell
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Steffen Freitag
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Amie Dobracki
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
now at: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Nikolai Smirnow
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
now at: NetApp, Boulder, CO, USA
Arthur J. Sedlacek III
Brookhaven National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Upton, NY, USA
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Short summary
Small particles in the air have important effects on visibility, clouds, and human health. For the ORACLES project we got a new particle sizing instrument that is fast, works over the most important particle sizes, and avoids some of the issues that plague other optical particle sizers. Unfortunately it sees some particles much smaller than they really are, likely because they heat up and evaporate. We show a crude correction and speculate why these particles heat up much more than expected.
Small particles in the air have important effects on visibility, clouds, and human health. For...
