AMTD Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions AMTD 1867-8610 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/amtd-3-5867-2010 Eddy covariance measurements with high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometry: a new approach to chemically-resolved aerosol fluxes Farmer D. K. 1 Kimmel J. R. 1 2 3 Phillips G. 4 Docherty K. S. 1 Worsnop D. R. 2 Sueper D. 1 2 Nemitz E. 4 Jimenez J. L. 1 CIRES and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA Tofwerk AG, Thun, Switzerland Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Edinburgh, Penicuik, UK 21 12 2010 3 6 5867 5905 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/3/5867/2010/amtd-3-5867-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/3/5867/2010/amtd-3-5867-2010.pdf

Although laboratory studies show that biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) yield substantial secondary organic aerosol (SOA), production of biogenic SOA as indicated by upward fluxes has not been conclusively observed over forests. Further, while aerosols are known to deposit to surfaces, few techniques exist to provide chemically-resolved particle deposition fluxes. To better constrain aerosol sources and sinks, we have developed a new technique to directly measure fluxes of chemically-resolved submicron aerosols using the high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-AMS) in a new, fast eddy covariance mode. This approach takes advantage of the instrument's ability to quantitatively identify both organic and inorganic components, including ammonium, sulphate and nitrate, at a temporal resolution of several Hz. The new approach has been successfully deployed over a temperate ponderosa pine plantation in California during the BEARPEX-2007 campaign, providing both total and chemically resolved non-refractory (NR) PM<sub>1</sub> fluxes. Average deposition velocity for total NR-PM<sub>1</sub> aerosol at noon was 2.05 ± 0.04 mm/s. Using a high resolution measurement of the NH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup> and NH<sub>3</sub><sup>+</sup> fragments, we demonstrate the first eddy covariance flux measurements of particulate ammonium, which show a noon-time deposition velocity of 1.9 ± 0.7 mm/s and are dominated by deposition of ammonium sulphate.

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