The aerosol chemical speciation monitor is a thermal vaporization, electron impact, ionization mass spectrometer that measures bulk chemical composition of the rapidly evaporating component of sub-micron aerosol particles in real time. Standard measurements include mass concentrations of organics, sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, and chloride.
ACSM
acsm > Aerosol Chemical Speciation MonitorVAP Type(s) > Baseline • Guest
Measurements
Locations
- Fixed
- AMF1
- AMF2
- AMF3
Active Instrument Locations
| Facility Name | Instrument Start Date |
|---|---|
| Houston, TX; AMF1 (main site for TRACER) | 2021-04-14 |
Related Publications
2021
Varble A, S Nesbitt, P Salio, J Hardin, N Bharadwaj, P Borque, P DeMott, Z Feng, T Hill, J Marquis, A Matthews, F Mei, R Öktem, V Castro, L Goldberger, A Hunzinger, K Barry, S Kreidenweis, G McFarquhar, L McMurdie, M Pekour, H Powers, D Romps, C Saulo, B Schmid, J Tomlinson, S van den Heever, A Zelenyuk, Z Zhang, and E Zipser. 2021. "Utilizing a Storm-Generating Hotspot to Study Convective Cloud Transitions: The CACTI Experiment." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, , 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0030.1. ONLINE.
Dorsey KS, R Jundt, CB Ireland, MR Wasem, RA Stafford, and A Hunzinger. 2021. 2020 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Annual Report. Ed. by Kathryn Dorsey, U.S. Department of Energy. DOE/SC-ARM-20-020.
Brown H, X Liu, R Pokhrel, S Murphy, Z Lu, R Saleh, T Mielonen, H Kokkola, T Bergman, G Myhre, R Skeie, D Watson-Paris, P Stier, B Johnson, N Bellouin, M Schulz, V Vakkari, J Beukes, P van Zyl, S Liu, and D Chand. 2021. "Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing." Nature Communications, 12(1), 10.1038/s41467-020-20482-9.
Research Highlight
Geerts B, G McFarquhar, L Xue, M Jensen, P Kollias, M Ovchinnikov, M Shupe, P DeMott, Y Wang, M Tjernstrom, P Field, S Abel, T Spengler, R Neggers, S Crewell, M Wendisch, and C Lupkes. 2021. Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) Field Campaign Report. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-21-001.
Uin J and S Smith. 2021. Southern Great Plains (SGP) Aerosol Observing System (AOS) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-267.
2020
Uin J and S Smith. 2020. Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) Aerosol Observing System (AOS) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-266.
Uin J and S Smith. 2020. Mobile Aerosol Observing System – Aerosols (MAOS-A) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-263.
Uin J and S Smith. 2020. Third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) Aerosol Observing System (AOS) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-265.
Logan T, X Dong, B Xi, X Zheng, Y Wang, P Wu, E Marlow, and J Maddux. 2020. "Quantifying long‐term seasonal and regional impacts of North American fire activity on continental boundary layer aerosols and cloud condensation nuclei." Earth and Space Science, 7(1 2), e2020EA001113, 10.1029/2020EA001113.
Zheng G, C Kuang, J Uin, T Watson, and J Wang. 2020. "Large contribution of organics to condensational growth and formation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in the remote marine boundary layer." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(21), 10.5194/acp-20-12515-2020.
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