ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-12-1681-2012 Sources and mixing state of size-resolved elemental carbon particles in a European megacity: Paris Healy R. M. 1 Sciare J. 2 Poulain L. 3 Kamili K. 3 Merkel M. 3 Müller T. 3 Wiedensohler A. 3 Eckhardt S. 4 Stohl A. 4 Sarda-Estève R. 2 McGillicuddy E. 1 O'Connor I. P. 1 Sodeau J. R. 1 Wenger J. C. 1 Department of Chemistry and Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, UMR1572 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning, Kjeller, Norway 15 02 2012 12 4 1681 1700 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/1681/2012/acp-12-1681-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/1681/2012/acp-12-1681-2012.pdf

An Aerosol Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS) was deployed to investigate the size-resolved chemical composition of single particles at an urban background site in Paris, France, as part of the MEGAPOLI winter campaign in January/February 2010. ATOFMS particle counts were scaled to match coincident Twin Differential Mobility Particle Sizer (TDMPS) data in order to generate hourly size-resolved mass concentrations for the single particle classes observed. The total scaled ATOFMS particle mass concentration in the size range 150–1067 nm was found to agree very well with the sum of concurrent High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) and Multi-Angle Absorption Photometer (MAAP) mass concentration measurements of organic carbon (OC), inorganic ions and black carbon (BC) (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.91). Clustering analysis of the ATOFMS single particle mass spectra allowed the separation of elemental carbon (EC) particles into four classes: (i) EC attributed to biomass burning (ECbiomass), (ii) EC attributed to traffic (ECtraffic), (iii) EC internally mixed with OC and ammonium sulfate (ECOCSO<sub>x</sub>), and (iv) EC internally mixed with OC and ammonium nitrate (ECOCNO<sub>x</sub>). Average hourly mass concentrations for EC-containing particles detected by the ATOFMS were found to agree reasonably well with semi-continuous quantitative thermal/optical EC and optical BC measurements (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.61 and 0.65–0.68 respectively, <i>n</i> = 552). The EC particle mass assigned to fossil fuel and biomass burning sources also agreed reasonably well with BC mass fractions assigned to the same sources using seven-wavelength aethalometer data (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.60 and 0.48, respectively, <i>n</i> = 568). Agreement between the ATOFMS and other instrumentation improved noticeably when a period influenced by significantly aged, internally mixed EC particles was removed from the intercomparison. 88% and 12% of EC particle mass was apportioned to fossil fuel and biomass burning respectively using the ATOFMS data compared with 85% and 15% respectively for BC estimated from the aethalometer model. On average, the mass size distribution for EC particles is bimodal; the smaller mode is attributed to locally emitted, mostly externally mixed EC particles, while the larger mode is dominated by aged, internally mixed ECOCNO<sub>x</sub> particles associated with continental transport events. Periods of continental influence were identified using the Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (LPDM) "FLEXPART". A consistent minimum between the two EC mass size modes was observed at approximately 400 nm for the measurement period. EC particles below this size are attributed to local emissions using chemical mixing state information and contribute 79% of the scaled ATOFMS EC particle mass, while particles above this size are attributed to continental transport events and contribute 21% of the EC particle mass. These results clearly demonstrate the potential benefit of monitoring size-resolved mass concentrations for the separation of local and continental EC emissions. Knowledge of the relative input of these emissions is essential for assessing the effectiveness of local abatement strategies.

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