Edinburgh, UK

Location

Site Type

Sampling Height

Reported Time

Instrument

Researchers

Acknowledgments

Latitude: 55.95; Longitude: -3.20

Urban

31 m (ASL)

November 2001

Quadrupole Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

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*

Citation

Comments

1 hour average
Concentrations reported at ambient conditions at the time of measurement

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

Deconvolved organic aerosol components (2 component analysis)

Components

HOA

OOA

Time series

Comments

2-component analysis

Data

HOA_MS_Edinburgh.itx

OOA_MS_Edinburgh.itx

2_Factor_Conc.itx

Papers published on this dataset

James D. Allan, Jose L. Jimenez, Paul I. Williams, M. Rami Alfarra, Keith N. Bower, John T. Jayne, Hugh Coe, and Douglas R. Worsnop (2003), Quantitative sampling using an Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer 1. Techniques of data interpretation and error analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D3), 4090, doi:10.1029/2002JD002358. PDF
Allan, J. D., et al., Quantitative sampling using an Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer, 2, Measurements of fine particulate chemical composition in two U.K. cities, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D3), 4091, doi:10.1029/2002JD002359, 2003. 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