Aerosol hygroscopicity and its link to chemical composition in the coastal atmosphere of Mace Head: marine and continental air masses

Xu, Wei; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita; Fossum, Kirsten N.; Lin, Chunshui; Huang, Ru-Jin; O'Dowd, Colin; Ceburnis, Darius

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3777-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3777-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3777-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

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30 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 30 Mar 2020

Aerosol hygroscopicity and its link to chemical composition in the coastal atmosphere of Mace Head: marine and continental air masses

Wei Xu, Jurgita Ovadnevaite, Kirsten N. Fossum, Chunshui Lin, Ru-Jin Huang, Colin O'Dowd, and Darius Ceburnis

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RC1: 'My review', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Reviewer comment for: “Aerosol hygroscopicity and its link to chemical composition in coastal atmosphere of Mace Head: marine and continental air masses” by Xu et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jan 2020
AC1: 'response to reviewers and tracked-change manuscript', Wei Xu, 14 Feb 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Feb 2020) by Kostas Tsigaridis

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A humidified tandem differential mobility analyser (HTDMA) and a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) were simultaneously deployed during winter at Mace Head observatory to characterise the hygroscopicity of marine aerosols and their link to chemical composition. Good agreement was generally found between measured and estimated growth factors. A significant degree of external mixing was found in all air masses manifesting primary and secondary sources.