Ambient and Sea Sweep Generated Aerosol Measurements in the North Atlantic in May-June 2014 during WACS2 (Western Atlantic Climate Study 2)
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 0.18 micron size cut. |
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 0.18 micron size cut. |
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 1.1 micron size cut. |
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 1.1 micron size cut. |
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 1.0 micron size cut. |
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Description | Organic functional group concentrations (FGC) contributing to the total organic mass (OM) measured by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was collected on filters using a 1.0 micron size cut. |
FTIR Spectra
Description | Absorbance spectra measured with FTIR spectroscopy as a function of wavenumber. Raw spectra are included in rawSpectra.zip. |
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Description | Absorbance spectra measured with FTIR spectroscopy as a function of wavenumber. Raw spectra are included in rawSpectra.zip. |
Ambient HR-AMS
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Description | Ambient air was measured with an Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Raw data is included in the rawHRAMS.zip file. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
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Description | Ambient air was measured with an Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Raw data is included in the rawHRAMS.zip file. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
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Description | Generated sea salt particles were measured using an Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Raw data is included in the rawHRAMS.zip file. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
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Description | Generated sea salt particles were measured using an Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Raw data is included in the rawHRAMS.zip file. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
Seasweep SP-AMS
Description | Generated sea salt particles were measured using an Soot Photometer-Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Only measurements collected in EI mode are included. |
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Description | Generated sea salt particles were measured using an Soot Photometer-Aerosol mass spectrometer non-refractory bulk organic, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and chloride mass concentrations. Only measurements collected in EI mode are included. |
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Description | Optical particle sizer distributions were collected. |
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Description | Optical particle sizer distributions were collected. |
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Description | A Miniature Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometery was used for waterside measurements of dimethyl sulfide, isoprene, and monoterpenes. |
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Description | A Miniature Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometery was used for waterside measurements of dimethyl sulfide, isoprene, and monoterpenes. |
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Description | Condensation nuclei concentration. |
Raw HR-AMS data
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Description | Raw AMS data collected on the R/V Point Sur. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
Raw FTIR spectra
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Description | Single particle light scattering AMS measurements. These files require ToF-AMS software to analyze. |
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Sanchez, Kevin J.; Russell, Lynn M.; Zoerb, Matthew C.; Kim, Michelle J.; Massoli, Paola; Bertram, Timothy H.; Bates, Timothy S.; Quinn, Patricia K. (2017). Ambient and Sea Sweep Generated Aerosol Measurements in the North Atlantic in May-June 2014 during WACS2 (Western Atlantic Climate Study 2). UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0M61HFH
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- 2014-05-20 to 2014-06-05
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- 2017
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The second Western Atlantic Climate Study (WACS2) was conducted in the northwest Atlantic on the R/V Knorr from 20 May to 5 June 2014. A Sea Sweep was used to generate primary marine aerosols at five stations with a range of chlorophyll-a concentrations. Station 1 and 3 are located at approximately the same location in intermediate chlorophyll-a waters about 900 km east of Long Island (40°N, 62°W), station 2 is located in eutrophic waters about 1800 km west of Boston (42.5°N, 61.5°W), station 4 is located in oligotrophic waters 200 km northwest of Bermuda in the Sargasso Sea (33.5°N, 63°W), and station 5 is located in coastal waters 130 km south of Cape Cod (40.5°N, 70.5°W). Particles were generated in the ocean, free of ambient air contamination, and transported to the aerosol particle sampling vans on the R/V Knorr. Ambient particles were collected with a temperature controlled vertical inlet at ~15 m above sea level. Ambient aerosols were measured directly with the aerosol inlet [Betha et al. 2017] between stations and during strong winds or large waves that prevented the safe deployment of the model ocean system.
Ambient and sea sweep particles were dried before submicron particles were separated from supermicron particles with a 1 µm cut cyclone (sharp cut cyclone SCC 2.229 BGI Inc., U.S.) then analyzed with a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS, Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA) to measure non-refractory inorganic (sulfate, ammonium, nitrate, chloride) and organic components [DeCarlo et al., 2006], and refractory sea salt and a soot-photometer time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (SP-ToF-AMS, Aerodyne Research Inc.) that also measured refractory black carbon. The HR-ToF-AMS included a light scattering mode (LS-AMS) to analyze the composition of individual particles. The LS-AMS had a lower cut off diameter of 400 nm.
Ambient and sea sweep marine particles were collected on pre-scanned 37 mm Teflon filters (Pall Inc., 1 µm pore size) for 4-24 hours. Before aerosols were collected on the filters, the particles were dried in diffusion driers and passed through either the 1 µm cut cyclone (SCC) or a 1.1 µm cut Berner impactor. Filter samples were frozen and then analyzed in the lab with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy (Tensor 27 spectrometer, Bruker, Billerica, MA). The generated marine samples were dehydrated using the method outlined by Frossard and Russell [2012] to remove interference of sea salt hydrate bound water with the organic signal in the FTIR spectra. The FTIR spectrum from each filter was baselined and integrated at specific peak locations to determine the peak areas of the organic functional groups using an automated algorithm outlined by Maria et al. [2002] and revised by Russell et al. [2009] and Takahama et al. [2013].
Dry ambient aerosol particle size distributions were measured with an Aerodynamic Particle Sizer (APS 0.5–20 μm Dp; TSI, Shoreview, Minnesota, model 3321) and an Optical Particle Sizer (OPS 0.3–10 μm Dp; TSI). A TSI model 3010 Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) measured total submicron particle concentration.
A miniature chemical ionization mass spectrometer (miniCIMS) utilized benzene cation reagent ion chemistry to permit the detection of dimethyl sulfide, isoprene, and monoterpenes. Waterside concentrations were determined by sampling the headspace of a seawater equilibrator attached to the ship underway seawater supply. - Geographic
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Identifier: Lynn M. Russell: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6108-2375
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- Sanchez KJ, Chen CL, Russell LM, Betha R, Liu J, Price DJ, Massoli P, Ziemba LD, Crosbie EC, Moore RH, Müller M, Schiller SA, Wisthaler A, Lee AKY, Quinn PK, Bates TS, Porter J, Bell TG, Saltzman ES, Vaillancourt RD, Behrenfeld MJ (2018). Substantial Seasonal Contribution of Observed Biogenic Sulfate Particles to Cloud Condensation Nuclei. Nature Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21590-9
- Data also at NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory: https://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/data/PrePlot.php?cruise=WACS2014
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