Interactive comment on “Primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols determined by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-NMR)

Interactive comment on “Primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols determined by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-NMR)

Interactive comment on “Primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols determined by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-NMR)

these results are not shown graphically, which would be very useful to see. These could very easily be included as supplementary material. Additionally, the factorisation also presumably needed to employ an estimate of measurement precision but the authors give no explanation for how this data was generated. The fact the Q/Qexp values in figure 5 are very high (around 30) may suggest that these...

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Interactive comment on “Primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols determined by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-NMR)

This is a very interesting paper looking at combining HNMR and AMS data to deliver a more complete picture of organic particulates in a polluted European environment. The real novelty of this work is in the combination of the independent factorisation of both datasets to deliver insights into the processes that might not be possible with only one of the datasets. The two data sources do not agr...

Characterization of urban aerosol using aerosol mass spectrometry and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Particulate matter was measured during August and September of 2006 in Houston as part of the Texas Air Quality Study II Radical and Aerosol Measurement Project. Aerosol size and composition were determined using an Aerodyne quadrupole aerosol mass spectrometer. Aerosol was dominated by sulfate (4.1 2.6 mg m 3) and organic material (5.5 4.0 mg m 3), with contributions of organic material from b...