Torch, UK
Torch, UK
Location
Site Type
Sampling Height
Reported Time
Instrument
Researchers
Acknowledgments
Latitude: 51.7; Longitude: 0.4
Urban Downwind
-
July-August 2003 / April-May 2004
Quadrupole Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
Michael Cubison and James Allan
Univ. of Manchester, see Acknowledgements to the supports of individual studies
Time series of aerosol species
Species
Sulfate
Ammonium
Nitrate
Organics
Chloride
Total*
Comments
~30 miles north-east of London, UK
1 hour average
Concentrations reported at ambient conditions at the time of measurement
Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry experiment (TORCH).
North Norfolk coastline near Weybourne, UK
1 hour average
Concentrations reported at ambient conditions at the time of measurement
Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry experiment (TORCH)
Data
Download 1h-average mass concentration data
The data is also available at : http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/dataset_index/
*Total = SO42-+ NO3-+ NH4++ Cl-+ Organics
Papers published on this dataset
M. J. Cubison, M. R. Alfarra, J. Allan, K. N. Bower, H. Coe, G. B. McFiggans, J. D. Whitehead, P. I. Williams, Q. Zhang, J. L. Jimenez, J. Hopkins, and J. Lee (2006), The characterisation of pollution aerosol in a changing photochemical environment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 5573–5588. PDF
M. Gysel, J. Crosier, D. O. Topping, J. D. Whitehead, K. N. Bower, M. J. Cubison, P. I. Williams,M. J. Flynn, G. B. McFiggans, and H. Coe, (2007), Closure study between chemical composition and hygroscopic growth of aerosol particles during TORCH2, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 6131–6144. PDF
Qi Zhang, J.L. Jimenez, M.R. Canagaratna, J.D. Allan, H. Coe, I. Ulbrich, M.R. Alfarra, A. Takami, A.M. Middlebrook, Y.L. Sun, K. Dzepina, E. Dunlea, K. Docherty, P.F. DeCarlo, D. Salcedo, T. Onasch, J.T. Jayne, T. Miyoshi, A. Shimono, S. Hatakeyama, N. Takegawa, Y. Kondo, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, S. Weimer, K. Demerjian, P. Williams, K. Bower, R. Bahreini, L. Cotrell, R.J. Griffin, J. Rautiainen, J.Y. Sun, Y.M. Zhang, and D.R. Worsnop (2007) Ubiquity and Dominance of Oxygenated Species in Organic Aerosols in Anthropogenically-Influenced Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitudes, Geophysical Research Letters 34, L13801, doi:10.1029/2007GL029979 PDF
Jimenez, J. L, Canagaratna, M. R., Donahue, N. M., Prevot, A. S. H., Zhang, Q., Kroll, J. H., DeCarlo, P. F., Allan, J. D., Coe, H., Ng, N. L., Aiken, A. C., Docherty, K. S., Ulbrich, I. M., Grieshop, A. P., Robinson, A. L., Duplissy, J., Smith, J. D., Wilson, K. R., Lanz, V. A., Hueglin, C., Sun, Y. L., Tian, J., Laaksonen, A., Raatikainen, T., Rautiainen, J., Vaattovaara, P., Ehn, M., Kulmala, M., Tomlinson, J. M., Collins, D. R., Cubison, M. J., Dunlea, E. J., Huffman, J. A., Onasch, T. B., Alfarra, M. R., Williams, P. I., Bower, K., Kondo, Y., Schneider, J., Drewnick, F., Borrmann, S., Weimer, S., Demerjian, K., Salcedo, D., Cottrell, L., Griffin, R., Takami, A., Miyoshi, T., Hatakeyama, S., Shimono, A., Sun, J. Y., Zhang, Y. M., Dzepina, K., Kimmel, J. R., Sueper, D., Jayne, J. T., Herndon, S. C., Trimborn, A. M., Williams, L. R., Wood, E. C., Middlebrook, A. M., Kolb, C. E., Baltensperger, U., Worsnop, D. R. (2009) Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere, Science 326, 5959, doi:10.1126/science.1180353 PDF
N.L. Ng, M.R. Canagaratna, Q. Zhang, J.L. Jimenez, J. Tian, I.M. Ulbrich, J.H. Kroll, K.S. Docherty, P.S. Chhabra, R. Bahreini, S.M. Murphy, J.H. Seinfeld, L. Hildebrandt, N.M. Donahue, P.F. DeCarlo, V.A. Lanz, A.S.H. Prevot, E. Dinar, Y. Rudich, and D.R. Worsnop (2009) Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10, 10, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4625-2010 PDF
Qi Zhang, Jose L. Jimenez, Manjula R. Canagaratna, Ingrid M. Ulbrich, Nga L. Ng, Douglas R. Worsnop, Yele Sun (2011) Understanding atmospheric organic aerosols via factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometry: a review Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry 401, 10, doi:10.1007/s00216-011-5355-y PDF
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