Boulder, CO, US

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Location

Site Type

Sampling Height

Reported Time

Instrument

Researchers

Acknowledgements

Latitude: 40.02; Longitude: -105.25

Urban

1660 m (ASL)

June 2003

Quadrupole Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

J. Alex Huffman, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Eiko Nemitz

NASA NNG04GA67G & NGT5-30516, US EPA RD-83216101-0, US NSF CAREER ATM-0449815, UK COSMAS NER/T/S/2000/01084, UK NERC NE/B504865/1

Time series of aerosol species

Species

Sulfate

Ammonium

Nitrate

Organics

Chloride

Total*

Citation

Nemitz et al. (2008)

Comments

1 hour average
Time: MST (= UTC - 7 hr)
Concentrations reported at ambient conditions at the time of measurement

Data

Download 1h-average mass concentration data

*Total = SO42-+ NO3-+ NH4++ Cl-+ Organics

Papers published on this dataset

Eiko Nemitz, Jose L. Jimenez, J. Alex Huffman, Ingrid M. Ulbrich, Manjula R. Canagaratna, Doug R. Worsnop, and Alex B. Guenther (2008), An Eddy-Covariance System for the Measurement of Surface/Atmosphere Exchange Fluxes of Submicron Aerosol Chemical Species—First Application Above an Urban Area, Aerosol Science and Technology, 42, 636-657, 10.1080/02786820802227352. 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