3) Big Bend’s Aerosol and Extinction Budgets during BRAVO
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The primary goal of the BRAVO study was to apportion the major aerosol species to their emission sources, with the secondary goals of understanding the physio/chemical/optical properties of aerosols at Big Bend and surrounding areas. To achieve the secondary goals, a number of detailed measurements of the particulate chemical composition, size distribution, hygroscopicity, and the particles’ optical properties were made (see chapter 2). These measurements were sufficient to perform chemical and optical closure calculations on the measured aerosol. This chapter reports on the findings from these measurements.
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