Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US 

Time series of aerosol species 

Location

Site Type

Sampling Height

Reported Time

Instrument

Researchers

Acknowledgements

Latitude: 40.44; Longitude: -79.94

Urban

500 m (ASL)

September 2002

Quadrupole Aerosol Mass Spectrometer




Species

Sulfate 

Ammonium

Nitrate

Organics

Chloride

Total*

Comments

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

Chemically resolved size distributions

Species

Total

Sulfate

Ammonium

Nitrate

Organics

Figure #

Figure 3c

Figure 3d

Figure 3e

Figure 3f

Figure 3g

Comments

1 hour average

1 hour average

1 hour average

1 hour average

1 hour average

Deconvolved organic aerosol components (2 component analysis)

QA/QC

Dectection limit (DL)

Collection efficiency (CE) and relative ionization efficiency (RIE)

Intercomparisons with collocated instruments

 

Time series

Instruments

AMS Total vs. TEOM PM2.5 mass

AMS Organics vs. OC

AMS Sulfate vs. PM2.5Sulfate

AMS Ammonium vs. PM2.5 Ammonium

Figure #

Figure 2a

Figure 2b

Figure 2c

Figure 2d

Comments

AMS Total = PM1

TEOM PM2.5 mass (R&P)

2h OC (Sunset) and 24 hr OC (filter samples)

PM2.5 Sulfate (Semicontinuous sulfate analyzer)

4hr PM2.5 Ammonium (Steam Sampler)

Data

Time Series

Scatter plots

Size distributions 

Instruments

AMS and SMPS

Figure #

Figure 4

Comments

AMS 2hr particle mass distribution vs. SMPS number distribution

Data

Paper published on this dataset