Concept
Mass concentration of elemental carbon in pm1 dry aerosol particles in air
URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/standard_name/mass_concentration_of_elemental_carbon_in_pm1_dry_aerosol_particles_in_air/ | ||
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Within Vocab | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | ||
Definition | "Mass concentration" means mass per unit volume and is used in the construction "mass_concentration_of_X_in_Y", where X is a material constituent of Y. A chemical species or biological group denoted by X may be described by a single term such as "nitrogen" or a phrase such as "nox_expressed_as_nitrogen". "Aerosol" means the system of suspended liquid or solid particles in air (except cloud droplets) and their carrier gas, the air itself. Aerosol particles take up ambient water (a process known as hygroscopic growth) depending on the relative humidity and the composition of the particles. "Dry aerosol particles" means aerosol particles without any water uptake. "Pm1 aerosol" means atmospheric particulate compounds with an aerodynamic diameter of less than or equal to 1 micrometer. Chemically, "elemental carbon" is the carbonaceous fraction of particulate matter that is thermally stable in an inert atmosphere to high temperatures near 4000K and can only be gasified by oxidation starting at temperatures above 340 C. It is assumed to be inert and non-volatile under atmospheric conditions and insoluble in any solvent (Ogren and Charlson, 1983). In measurements of carbonaceous aerosols, elemental carbon samples may also include some inorganic carbon compounds, whose mass is neglected and assumed to be distributed between the elemental and organic carbon components of the aerosol particles. Reference: Petzold, A., Ogren, J. A., Fiebig, M., Laj, P., Li, S.-M., Baltensperger, U., Holzer-Popp, T., Kinne, S., Pappalardo, G., Sugimoto, N., Wehrli, C., Wiedensohler, A., and Zhang, X.-Y.: Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 8365-8379, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8365-2013, 2013. | ||
Date | None | ||
Note | accepted | ||
modified | 2023-02-06 17:17:13.0 | ||
Exact Match | http://mmisw.org/ont/cf/parameter/mass_concentration_of_elemental_carbon_in_pm1_dry_aerosol_particles_in_air | ||
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/standard_name/mass_concentration_of_elemental_carbon_in_pm1_dry_aerosol_particles_in_air/ | |||
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Related | P06:UKMC |
Kilograms per cubic metre |
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