Manaus, BR
Location
Site Type
Sampling Height
Reported Time
Instrument
Researchers
Acknowledgments
Latitude: -2.58; Longitude: -60.2
Rural / Remote
38.75 (m)
February & March 2008
HR-ToF-AMS
Qi Chen, Delphine Farmer, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Joel Kimmel, Scot Martin
Support was received from the U.S. National Science Foundation ATM-0723582, the German Max Planck Society, and Brazilian CNPq and FAPESP agencies. QC acknowledges a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. DKF acknowledges a NOAA Global Change Fellowship
Time series of aerosol species
Species
Sulfate
Ammonium
Nitrate
Organics
Chloride
Total*
Comments
5 minute Averages
*Total = SO42-+ NO3-+ NH4++ Cl-+ Organics
Elemental Ratios
Species
Timeseries
H/C
O/C
Comments
5 minute Averages
Papers Published on this Dataset
S.S. Gunthe, S.M. King, D. Rose, Q. Chen, P. Roldin, D.K. Farmer, J.L. Jimenez, P. Artaxo, M.O. Andreae, S.T. Martin, and U. Poschl. Cloud Condensation Nuclei in Pristine Tropical Rainforest Air of Amazonia: Size-resolved Measurements and Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosol Composition and CCN Activity. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2009, 2(19), 7551-7575. PDF
C.L. Heald, J.H. Kroll, J.L. Jimenez, K.S. Docherty, P.F. DeCarlo, A.C. Aiken, Q. Chen, S.T. Martin, D.K. Farmer, and P. Artaxo. A Simplified Description of the Evolution of Organic Aerosol Composition in the Atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letter. 2010, 37, L08803. DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042737. PDF
S.T. Martin, M.O. Andreae, D. Althausen, P. Artaxo, H. Baars, S. Borrmann, Q. Chen, D.K. Farmer, A. Guenther, S.S. Gunthe, J.L. Jimenez, T. Karl, K. Longo, A. Manzi, T. Muller, T. Pauliquevis, M.D. Petters, A.J. Prenni, U. Poschl, L.V. Rizzo, J. Schneider, J.N. Smith, E. Swietlicki, J. Tota, J. Wang, A. Wiedensohler, and S.R. Zorn. An Overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2010, 10, 11415-11438. PDF
N.H. Robinson, J.F. Hamilton, J.D. Allan, B. Langford, D.E. Oram, Q. Chen, K. Docherty, D.K. Farmer, J.L. Jimenez, M.W. Ward, C.N. Hewitt, M.H. Barley, M.E. Jenkin, A.R. Rickard, S.T. Martin, G. McFiggans, and H. Coe. Evidence for a Significant Proportion of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Isoprene above a Maritime Tropical Forest. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2011, 11(3), 1039-1050. PDF
J.H. Kroll, N.M. Donahue, J.L. Jimenez, S.H. Kessler, M.R. Canagaratna, K.R. Wilson, K.E. Altieri, L.R. Mazzoleni, A.S. Wozniak, H. Bluhm, E.R. Mysak, J.D. Smith, C.E. Kolb, and D.R. Worsnop. Carbon Oxidation State as a Metric for Describing the Chemistry of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol. Nature - Chemistry. 2011, 3, 133-139. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.948. PDF
D.V. Spracklen, J.L. Jimenez, K.S. Carslaw, D.R. Worsnop, M.J. Evans, G.W. Mann, Q. Zhang, M.R. Canagaratna, J. Allan, H. Coe, G. McFiggans, A. Rap, and P. Forster. Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Constraint on the Global Secondary Organic Aerosol Budget. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2011, 11, 12109-12136. PDF
J. Schneider, F. Freutel, S.R. Zorn, Q. Chen, D.K. Farmer, J.L. Jimenez, S.T. Martin, P. Artaxo, A. Wiedensohler, and S. Borrmann. Mass-spectrometric Identification of Primary Biological Particle Markers and Application to Pristine Submicron Aerosol Measurements in Amazonia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2011, 11, 11415-11429. PDF
Farmer et al. 2012 (AS&T in prep.)