A technique for rapid source apportionment applied to ambient organic aerosol measurements from a thermal desorption aerosol gas chromatograph (TAG)

Zhang, Yaping; Williams, Brent J.; Goldstein, Allen H.; Docherty, Kenneth S.; Jimenez, Jose L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5637-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5637–5653, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5637-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5637–5653, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5637-2016

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

Research article 25 Nov 2016

Research article | 25 Nov 2016

A technique for rapid source apportionment applied to ambient organic aerosol measurements from a thermal desorption aerosol gas chromatograph (TAG)

Yaping Zhang et al.

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AC1: 'Figure 2', Y. Zhang, 28 Jul 2016
RC1: 'Comments for amt-2016-211', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Aug 2016
- AC3: 'Author response to Review #2', Y. Zhang, 25 Oct 2016
RC2: 'comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Author response to Review #1', Y. Zhang, 25 Oct 2016
AC4: 'Revised document with Track Changes', Y. Zhang, 25 Oct 2016

Short summary

The binning method provides an alternate way to process GC–MS data in a very fast manner. It only takes a very small portion of time (days versus years) compared to the traditional GC–MS data analysis method (peak identification and integration). Furthermore, the binning method can also be applied to any data set from a measurement (mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, etc.) with additional separations (volatility, polarity, size, etc.).