Articles | Volume 8, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4013-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4013-2015
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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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.