Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance measurements from infrared spectra: elemental carbon

Dillner, A. M.; Takahama, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4013-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4013-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4013-2015

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

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

Research article

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02 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 02 Oct 2015

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance measurements from infrared spectra: elemental carbon

A. M. Dillner and S. Takahama

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RC C2137: 'FTIR measurements of EC', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jul 2015
RC C2602: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Aug 2015
AC C2721: 'Response to Reviewers', Ann Dillner, 26 Aug 2015

Short summary

Elemental carbon (EC), a constituent of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), adversely affects climate, visibility and human health. EC is measured in PM monitoring networks world-wide but the method is expensive and destructive to the samples. Here, methods are presented to accurately predict EC using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis which is inexpensive and non-destructive. This method complements measurements of organic carbon and organic functional groups made using FT-IR.