Characterization of the mass-dependent transmission efficiency of a CIMS

Heinritzi, Martin; Simon, Mario; Steiner, Gerhard; Wagner, Andrea C.; Kürten, Andreas; Hansel, Armin; Curtius, Joachim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

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04 Apr 2016

Research article |

| 04 Apr 2016

Characterization of the mass-dependent transmission efficiency of a CIMS

Martin Heinritzi, Mario Simon, Gerhard Steiner, Andrea C. Wagner, Andreas Kürten, Armin Hansel, and Joachim Curtius

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Apr 2016)
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RC C3725: 'Review of Heinritzi et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Nov 2015
- AC C3913: 'Author response to referee no1', M. Heinritzi, 17 Nov 2015
RC C4101: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Nov 2015
- AC C5197: 'Author response to referee no2', M. Heinritzi, 26 Jan 2016

Short summary

An easy-to-use method of estimating the mass-dependent transmission efficiency of a CIMS is presented. It makes use of depleting nitrate primary ions by different perfluorinated acids to obtain the transmission efficiency of these acids relative to the primary ion. Knowledge about the transmission efficiency is crucial for, e.g., quantification of extremely low volatile organic compounds.