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| Titel |
Implementation of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to inorganic aerosol modeling of observations from the MCMA-2003 campaign – Part I: Model description and application to the La Merced site |
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F. M. San Martini, E. J. Dunlea, M. Grutter, T. B. Onasch, J. T. Jayne, M. R. Canagaratna, D. R. Worsnop, C. E. Kolb, J. H. Shorter, S. C. Herndon, M. S. Zahniser, J. M. Ortega, G. J. McRae, L. T. Molina, M. J. Molina |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 6, no. 12 ; Nr. 6, no. 12 (2006-10-30), S.4867-4888 |
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250004159
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-6-4867-2006.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The equilibrium inorganic aerosol model ISORROPIA was embedded in a Markov
Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to develop a powerful tool to analyze aerosol
data and predict gas phase concentrations where these are unavailable. The
method directly incorporates measurement uncertainty, prior knowledge, and
provides a formal framework to combine measurements of different quality.
The method was applied to particle- and gas-phase precursor observations
taken at La Merced during the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) 2003
Field Campaign and served to discriminate between diverging gas-phase
observations of ammonia and predict gas-phase concentrations of hydrochloric
acid. The model reproduced observations of particle-phase ammonium, nitrate,
and sulfate well. The most likely concentrations of ammonia were found to
vary between 4 and 26 ppbv, while the range for nitric acid was 0.1 to 55 ppbv.
During periods where the aerosol chloride observations were
consistently above the detection limit, the model was able to reproduce the
aerosol chloride observations well and predicted the most likely gas-phase
hydrochloric acid concentration varied between 0.4 and 5 ppbv. Despite the
high ammonia concentrations observed and predicted by the model, when the
aerosols were assumed to be in the efflorescence branch they are predicted
to be acidic (pH~3). |
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