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Annual Cycle of Sulfate at MLO
Measurements by Huebert, Univ. Hawaii
Models by Rodhe, Kjellstrom, & Feichter
When they disagree, which should you believe?
B Huebert, Jul02
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One can derive totally different
conclusions due to slight differences in
calibrationB Huebert, Jul02
Aerosol measurements aren’t easy!
Don’t believe every number you read …Barry J. Huebert
Department of OceanographyUniversity of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822 [email protected]
In what ways are aerosol measurements potentially misleading?
What can you do to ensure the quality of other people’s data that you use?
B Huebert, Jul02
Nine Questions You Should Ask Observationalists
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing? 2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar
or different principles?3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this measurement? Any
operational definitions?6. What is the time-response of this measurement?7. What is your detection limit? How are values below this limit
tabulated?8. What are your uncertainties? How were they determined?9. Are there points that need to be flagged for any reason?
B Huebert, Jul02
1. Particles have inertia, so some may not pass through inlets and plumbing and will
then not be analyzed.
Fuselage
AerodynamicParticleSizer
AmbientDistribution
Inlet Efficiency Alone Cannot Guarantee Accurate Sampling
Large Particles May HaveShadow Zones and Enhancement Zones
Turbulent and Inertial LossesMay Occur in Tubes
B Huebert, Jul02
You don’t have to be moving 100 m/s to lose particles in inlets.
This example from a beach-front tower shows losses starting around 2-3 µm in 7 m/s winds.
One inlet faced the wind, the other faced upward.
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B Huebert, Jul02
For >1µm Dust& Seasalt, Inlets Are CriticalACE-Asia Used Low-Turbulence Inlets on the C-130 to Sample Large Particles. (Developed by LeFleur and Seebaugh, DU)
LTIs Can Enrich Large Particles
80% of the flow is drawn out through the diffuser walls.
Small particles follow the suction flow (80% are are drawn out), so they are not enriched in the sample flow.The inertia of the largest particles causes them to stay in the sample flow, thereby becoming enriched by up to 5x.
Suction Flow
Sample Flow
B Huebert, Jul02
Enhancement factors for high, median and low core mass flow
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0.003694kg/s-29%
0.002296kg/s-23%
0.001230kg/s-16%
Fluent Modeling of Enhancement for ACE-Asia LTIs.“They are for high, medium and low pressures: 977 mb, 682 mb, and 380 mb. Enhancements went up at higher altitude because TAS goes up with altitude and maintaining isokinetic flow required more suction. Hence the core flow fraction decreased with altitude.”
-Chuck Wilson, Denver University, 31 Oct 2001
This data is now outdated!!
B Huebert, Jul02
Particles May Also be Lost in Plumbing.
This efficiency has been measured in the lab.
How do we deal with the fact that tubing efficiencies will differ for dust and other
aerosols?
B Huebert, Jul02
What processes caused these
deposits to be so different?
We generated pink particles 7 µm in diameter to test
ACE-Asia tubing losses in the lab.
B Huebert, Jul02
Impact of C-130 Plumbing and LTI
The red transmission efficiency includes both LTI and tubing losses. However, since some particles do not stick when they hit a tube wall, the actual efficiency will be somewhere between the red and blue.
The magnitude of the error these losses cause depends on the amount
of aerosols in each size range and the radiative impact of each size.
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2. Instrument Intercomparisons - “Harmony”
ACE-Asia included lots of intercomparisons
C-130
Ron Brown Twin Otter
Kosan
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KingAir: 1P-3: 2
B Huebert, Jul02
Eight Groups that Measured Elemental and Organic Carbon Participated in an Intercomparison Experiment.
Experiments of this type provide realistic uncertainty bounds, even though we don’t know if anyone is right!
Precision: WOW!!4% for OC on particle-loaded filters 12% for OC on backup filters12% for EC on particle-loaded filters
However, there are subtleties ofanalyzing lightly-loaded samplesthat introduce uncertainties intoairborne EC & OC data.
More on this later….B Huebert, Jul02
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BernerThis comparison of 3 common
cascade impactors by
Howell et al. Is striking.
Were they in the same air?!?
yep...
B Huebert, Jul02
Some instruments are less quantitative than others, and “good agreement” needs to be viewed critically.
Laser particle counters in ACE-Asia for example:
Nine orders of magnitude
B Huebert, Jul02
On a linear scale, Area (left) and Volume (below)
differ by factors of 2 to 10 or more
Beware of log scales on OPC and FSSP
data showing“good agreement”
B Huebert, Jul02
Surprisingly, some such disagreements are also due to the definition of “size.”
Aerodynamic, Geometric, Microscopic size
What “size” is this mineral/soot/OC aggregate?
ACE-AsiaImage by Jim Anderson,ASU
B Huebert, Jul02
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After PELTI we compared simultaneous SEM and APS size distributions
These “visual” sizes did not agree well with the aerodynamic size from the APS.
B Huebert, Jul02
3. Flow Measurements & Calibration
Nearly every measurement involves collecting or measuring the aerosol in a particular volume of air. Concentrations are derived as:
[Aerosol] = Analyte amount / air volume
Thus, the aerosol concentration cannot be known more accurately than the integrated flow is known.
Instruments that do not record the flow can cause undetectable problems.
Flowmeters must be calibrated before and after experiments, at a minimum….
against what kind of standard?B Huebert, Jul02
4. How was your analysis calibrated?
Any round-robin comparisons?2.0
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Ion Chromatograph Response, µs
1086420Time, min
Standards SampleNa
NH4
K
Mg
Ca
485 ng/ml
1000 ng/ml
Ion Chromatography for Cations
B Huebert, Jul02
4. How was your analysis calibrated?A variety of problems can make calibration difficult:
Swamping, noise, contamination, degeneration, …
Ion Chromatography for Cations
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Standards Cat1SigNa
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K
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Ca
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B Huebert, Jul02
5. Are there any artifacts or ambiguities in this measurement? Operational definitions?
What is “Organic Carbon” vs “Elemental Carbon?”
B Huebert, Jul02
We had many cases during ACE-Asia, however, in which there was very little OC charring, so that did not constrain the split
time well.
Small sample size may contribute to this problem.
B Huebert, Jul02
Other groups that do Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) define things differently:
EGA by Novakov et al. (97) of front and back quartz filters
All CO2 below 290C is defined as due to vapor absorption.
R&P defines EC as all CO2 evolved above 340C.
Operational Definitions
B Huebert, Jul02
Serial filters area an attempt to correct for a vapor-adsorption (positive) artifact.
Flow Meter
Pump
Ambient Air
~Particles & Vapor
~Vapor Only - Same Amt as Above?
B Huebert, Jul02
Serial filters area an attempt to correct for a vapor-adsorption (positive) artifact.
Does this really work?
Flow Meter
Pump
Ambient Air
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B Huebert, Jul02
Many groups now use Denuders to at least
minimize vapor-absorption artifacts.
This PC-BOSS sampler by Delbert Eatough was used on
the C-130 in ACE-Asia.
The denuder strips away adsorbable organic vapors before they can reach the
quartz filter.
B Huebert, Jul02
C-130 PSAP vs EC before correction
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Absorption Submicron, Mm-1
543210EC, µg/m3
Slope = 4.8 if constainedto go through zero
This data is now outdated!!
B Huebert, Jul02
New PSAP vs EC: Note the Impact of using a correct DL!
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C-130 EC data w/o dust or questionable splitsUW PSAP averaged to EC Times
This data is now outdated!!
B Huebert, Jul02
6. Time-Response
Image by Steve Howell
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Total Scattering <10um SO2_1_sec_pptv Submicron Scattering
is critical for some applications. What is the
altitude of the lowest layer?
The SO2 trace (red) in the ascent profile peaks at a lower altitude than the light scattering (blue & green) measured by TSI nephelometers.
Why?
B Huebert, Jul02
6. Time-Response
Image by Steve Howell
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The SO2 trace (red) in the ascent profile peaks at a lower altitude than the light scattering (blue & green) measured by TSI nephelometers. Why?
The faster time-response of the SO2 instrument.
The nephs have to fill a ~5 liter volume at 30
l/min, so they take half a minute to settle to a new
value.B Huebert, Jul02
7. What is the Detection Limit (DL) of this measurement?
Every instrument will produce some kind of response even when the ambient concentration is below the DL.
How can the value of the DL be established? Field Blanks: analyze a “sample” that has not had any real exposure. This blank must be handled and treated exactly the same as every real sample. Often the blank
value is subtracted from the sample values. Filter DL = 2-3 x Standard Deviation of the blanks
For continuous instruments blanking is often accomplished by filtering the input air, so no particles
reach the detector. B Huebert, Jul02
7. How are samples below the Detection Limit tabulated?
These are real values, and must be included in averages!!
Using only above-blank values would introduce a bias.
Actual Value DL Reported Biased Avg
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Avg: 5 Avg: 8
B Huebert, Jul02
8. Uncertainties? How were they determined?
Hopefully by propagation of errors:
Flow, Analysis Range, DL, Blank variability
Random (precision) vs Systematic (averaging won’t help)
Uncertainty is NOT the same as the statistical variation of a set of data!
One is instrumental, the other geophysicalB Huebert, Jul02
9. Should this data be flagged?
Photo courtesy of Tai Chen
This 1 um impactor (used by Tad Anderson and Sarah Masonis in front of a TSI nephelometer to measure sub-
micron scattering) collected so much dust on ACE-Asia C-130 RF13 that raised deposits probably
changed its cut size from 1 µm.
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
If so, how?
By direct measurement or by estimate from the literature or a manufacturer?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
3. How did you calibrate flow rates?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?
Were there any round-robin intercomparisons?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this
measurement? Any operational definitions?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this
measurement? Any operational definitions?6. What is the time-response of this measurement?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing?
2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar or different principles?
3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this
measurement? Any operational definitions?6. What is the time-response of this measurement?7. What is your detection limit? How are values below
this limit tabulated?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing? 2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar
or different principles?3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this measurement? Any
operational definitions?6. What is the time-response of this measurement?7. What is your Detection Limit? How are values below this limit
tabulated?
8. What are your uncertainties? How were they determined?
B Huebert, Jul02
What Can You Ask of Observationalists?
1. Do you know the upper-size cut of your inlet and plumbing? 2. Has this instrument been intercompared with others that use similar
or different principles?3. How did you calibrate flow rates?4. How was your analysis calibrated?5. What artifacts or ambiguities are there in this measurement? Any
operational definitions?6. What is the time-response of this measurement?7. What is your Detection Limit? How are values below this limit
tabulated?8. What are your uncertainties? How were they determined?
9. Are there points that need to be flagged for any reason?
B Huebert, Jul02
As a last resort:
learn how the instrument works!
You’re a smart person.
You know lots about science.
Even though you may not be a chemist or an engineer, you can understand the
measurements you use well enough to see where they might be weak.
B Huebert, Jul02
Even though observations are subject to a wide range of
uncertainties, they are still the best check on the reality of
models.
But you must use them wisely:
Not all observations are equally sound.
Work WITH the people who generated the data you use,
question them thoroughly, and give the greatest credence to that data with the best quality
control.
B Huebert, Jul02