Characterizing black carbon in rain and ice cores using coupled tangential flow filtration and transmission electron microscopy

Ellis, A.; Edwards, R.; Saunders, M.; Chakrabarty, R. K.; Subramanian, R.; van Riessen, A.; Smith, A. M.; Lambrinidis, D.; Nunes, L. J.; Vallelonga, P.; Goodwin, I. D.; Moy, A. D.; Curran, M. A. J.; van Ommen, T. D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3959-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3959-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3959-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

Research article

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29 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 29 Sep 2015

Characterizing black carbon in rain and ice cores using coupled tangential flow filtration and transmission electron microscopy

A. Ellis, R. Edwards, M. Saunders, R. K. Chakrabarty, R. Subramanian, A. van Riessen, A. M. Smith, D. Lambrinidis, L. J. Nunes, P. Vallelonga, I. D. Goodwin, A. D. Moy, M. A. J. Curran, and T. D. van Ommen

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RC C1937: 'Review of the article titled “Characterizing black carbon in rain and ice cores using coupled tangential flow filtration and transmission electron microscopy” by A. Ellis et al. for publication in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.', Kari Pohl, 10 Jul 2015
- AC C2920: 'Response to Referee #1', Aja Ellis, 11 Sep 2015
RC C2015: 'Review of paper by Ellis et al. “Characterizing black carbon in rain and ice cores using coupled tangential flow filtration and transmission electron microscopy”', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jul 2015
- AC C2925: 'Response to Referee #2', Aja Ellis, 11 Sep 2015

Short summary

Black carbon is an important environmental pollutant, and the structure and composition of these particles are important to measuring their affect on the climate. Historical records of black carbon emissions are stored in polar ice. This paper details a new method to study black carbon preserved in Antarctic ice cores. By combining filtration to concentrate the particles and electron microscopy to characterize them, this method opens up a new avenue to study the history of our atmosphere.