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Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-825-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-825-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Research article
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14 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 14 Feb 2023

An optimised organic carbon ∕ elemental carbon (OC ∕ EC) fraction separation method for radiocarbon source apportionment applied to low-loaded Arctic aerosol filters

Martin Rauber, Gary Salazar, Karl Espen Yttri, and Sönke Szidat

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Carbon-containing aerosols from ambient air are analysed for radioactive isotope radiocarbon to determine the contribution from fossil-fuel emissions. Light-absorbing soot-like aerosols are isolated by water extraction and thermal separation. This separation is affected by artefacts, for which we developed a new correction method. The investigation of aerosols from the Arctic shows that our approach works well for such samples, where many artefacts are expected.
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