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Compositional data analysis (CoDA) as a tool to evaluate a new low-cost settling-based PM10 sampling head in a desert dust source region
Yangjunjie Xu-Yang
Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Fabrice Monna
ARTEHIS, UMR CNRS 6298, Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France
Jean-Louis Rajot
LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques), Université de Paris and Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
iEES Paris (Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris), UMR IRD 242, Univ Paris Est Creteil-Sorbonne Université-CNRS-INRA-Université de Paris, Bondy, France
Mohamed Labiadh
Institut des Régions Arides, Medenine, Tunisia
Gilles Bergametti
LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques), Université de Paris and Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
Béatrice Marticorena
LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques), Université de Paris and Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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Aerosol particles can interact with incoming solar radiation and outgoing long wave radiation, change cloud properties, affect photochemistry, impact surface air quality, and when deposited impact surface albedo of snow and ice, and modulate carbon dioxide uptake by the land and ocean. Here we present a new compilation of aerosol observations including composition, a methodology for comparing the datasets to model output, and show the implications of these results using one model.
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Suspended particles in air (aerosols) are sampled with a pump drawing ambient air through a filter. The air inlet must be carefully designed to control the size of sampled particles and to reject the largest ones (> 10 µm). A low-cost sampling head for determination of the finest fraction of aerosol (> 10 µm in diameter) is presented. Compositional data analysis (CoDA) tools are extensively used here to demonstrate similarity between the low-cost sampling head and other existing systems.
Suspended particles in air (aerosols) are sampled with a pump drawing ambient air through a...