Articles | Volume 13, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8365-2013
© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8365-2013
© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Review article |
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22 Aug 2013
Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurements
A. Petzold, J. A. Ogren, M. Fiebig, P. Laj, S.-M. Li, U. Baltensperger, T. Holzer-Popp, S. Kinne, G. Pappalardo, N. Sugimoto, C. Wehrli, A. Wiedensohler, and X.-Y. Zhang
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung IEK-8, 52425 Jülich, Germany
NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, Université de Grenoble I – CNRS, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères cedex, France
Environment Canada, Processes Research Section, Toronto, ON M3H 5T4, Canada
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum, DLR, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), Potenza, 85050, Italy
National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD/WRC), 7260 Davos, Switzerland
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 46 Zhong-Guan-Cun S. Av., Beijing 100081, China
Abstract. Although black carbon (BC) is one of the key atmospheric particulate components driving climate change and air quality, there is no agreement on the terminology that considers all aspects of specific properties, definitions, measurement methods, and related uncertainties. As a result, there is much ambiguity in the scientific literature of measurements and numerical models that refer to BC with different names and based on different properties of the particles, with no clear definition of the terms. The authors present here a recommended terminology to clarify the terms used for BC in atmospheric research, with the goal of establishing unambiguous links between terms, targeted material properties and associated measurement techniques.
How to cite. Petzold, A., Ogren, J. A., Fiebig, M., Laj, P., Li, S.-M., Baltensperger, U., Holzer-Popp, T., Kinne, S., Pappalardo, G., Sugimoto, N., Wehrli, C., Wiedensohler, A., and Zhang, X.-Y.: Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 8365–8379, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8365-2013, 2013.
Received: 03 Mar 2013 – Discussion started: 11 Apr 2013 – Revised: 30 Jun 2013 – Accepted: 05 Jul 2013 – Published: 22 Aug 2013