Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2579-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2579-2022
Research article
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28 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2022

Regularized inversion of aerosol hygroscopic growth factor probability density function: application to humidity-controlled fast integrated mobility spectrometer measurements

Jiaoshi Zhang, Yang Wang, Steven Spielman, Susanne Hering, and Jian Wang

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on amt-2021-334', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Dec 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on amt-2021-334', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Dec 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Jiaoshi Zhang on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Mar 2022) by Charles Brock
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Mar 2022)
ED: Publish as is (18 Mar 2022) by Charles Brock
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Short summary
New nonparametric, regularized methods are developed to invert the growth factor probability density function (GF-PDF) from humidity-controlled fast integrated mobility spectrometer measurements. These algorithms are computationally efficient, require no prior assumptions of the GF-PDF distribution, and reduce the error in inverted GF-PDF. They can be applied to humidified tandem differential mobility analyzer data. Among all algorithms, Twomey’s method retrieves GF-PDF with the smallest error.