Performance evaluation of portable dual-spot micro-aethalometers for source identification of black carbon aerosols: application to wildfire smoke and traffic emissions in the Pacific Northwest

Chakraborty, Mrinmoy; Giang, Amanda; Zimmerman, Naomi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 9

Research article

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05 May 2023

Research article |

| 05 May 2023

Performance evaluation of portable dual-spot micro-aethalometers for source identification of black carbon aerosols: application to wildfire smoke and traffic emissions in the Pacific Northwest

Mrinmoy Chakraborty, Amanda Giang, and Naomi Zimmerman

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023-supplement

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Performance evaluation of portable dual-spot micro-aethalometers for source identification of Black Carbon aerosols: Application to wildfire smoke and traffic emissions in the Pacific Northwest Mrinmoy Chakraborty, Amanda Giang, andNaomi Zimmerman https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/DRQBUY

Short summary

Black carbon (BC) has important climate and human health impacts. Aethalometers are used to measure BC, but they are hard to deploy in many environments (remote, mobile). We evaluate how well a portable micro-aethalometer (MA300) performs compared to a reference aethalometer at a road-side site in Vancouver, BC, Canada, during regular and wildfire conditions. We find that the MA300 can reproduce overall patterns in concentrations and source characterization but with some underestimation.