Impact of particle number and mass size distributions of major chemical components on particle mass scattering efficiency in urban Guangzhou in southern China

Tao, Jun; Zhang, Zhisheng; Wu, Yunfei; Zhang, Leiming; Wu, Zhijun; Cheng, Peng; Li, Mei; Chen, Laiguo; Zhang, Renjian; Cao, Junji

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8471-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8471-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8471-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

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04 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2019

Impact of particle number and mass size distributions of major chemical components on particle mass scattering efficiency in urban Guangzhou in southern China

Jun Tao, Zhisheng Zhang, Yunfei Wu, Leiming Zhang, Zhijun Wu, Peng Cheng, Mei Li, Laiguo Chen, Renjian Zhang, and Junji Cao

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RC1: 'Review of “Impact of particle number and mass size distributions of major chemical components on particle mass scattering efficiency in urban Guangzhou of South China” by Tao et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Leiming Zhang, 10 May 2019
RC2: 'Good text, minor revisions', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Leiming Zhang, 11 May 2019

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AR by Leiming Zhang on behalf of the Authors (14 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 May 2019) by Aijun Ding

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish as is (10 Jun 2019) by Aijun Ding

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Mass-scattering efficiencies (MSE) of dominant chemical species in atmospheric aerosols are important parameters for building the relationships between chemical species and the particle-scattering coefficient. Particle MSE mainly depends on the mass fractions of (NH₄)₂SO₄, NH₄NO₃, and organic matter and their MSEs in the droplet mode. MSEs of (NH₄)₂SO₄, NH₄NO₃ and organic matter were determined by their size distributions in the droplet mode.