Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1939-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1939-2016
Research article
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29 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2016

Influence of the melting temperature on the measurement of the mass concentration and size distribution of black carbon in snow

Takeshi Kinase, Kazuyuki Kita, Yoshimi Tsukagawa-Ogawa, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, and Hiroto Kawashima

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The influence of temperature and time for the melting snow samples on the measurement of mass concentration and its size distribution of black carbon (BC) in snow have not been understood enough. We evaluated the effect of the melting temperature and time with experiments. We also derived the best conditions of temperature and time for melting snow samples for the measurement of BC in snow by a single-particle soot photometer (SP2).