Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 10 7 2010 10.5194/acpd-10-17853-2010 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/17853/2010/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/17853/2010/acpd-10-17853-2010.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/17853/2010/acpd-10-17853-2010.pdf 17853 17887 2010-07-26 Source attribution of climatically important aerosol properties measured at Paposo (Chile) during VOCALS D. Chand chand@cira.colostate.edu D. A. Hegg R. Wood G. E. Shaw D. Wallace D. S. Covert Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA now at: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Measurements of submicron aerosol composition, light scattering, and size distribution were made from 17 October to 15 November 2008 at the elevated Paposo site (25° 0.4' S, 70°27.01' W, 690 m a.s.l.) on the Chilean coast as part of the VOCALS<sup>1</sup> Regional Experiment (REx). Based on the chemical composition measurements, a receptor modeling analysis using Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) was carried out, yielding four broad source categories of the aerosol mass, light scattering coefficient, and a proxy for cloud condensation nucleus (CCN) concentration at 0.4% supersaturation derived from the size distribution measurements assuming an observed soluble mass fraction of 0.53. The sources resolved were biomass burning, marine, an urban-biofuels mix and a somewhat ambiguous mix of smelter emissions and mineral dust. The urban-biofuels mix is the most dominant aerosol mass component (52%) followed by biomass burning (25%), smelter/soil dust (12%) and marine (9%) sources. The average (mean&plusmn;std) submicron aerosol mass concentration, aerosol light scattering coefficient and proxy CCN concentration were, 8.77&plusmn;5.40 μg m<sup>&minus;3</sup>, 21.9&plusmn;11.0 Mm<sup>−1</sup> and 548&plusmn;210 cm<sup>−3</sup>, respectively. Sulfate is the dominant identified submicron species constituting roughly 40% of the dry mass (3.64&plusmn;2.30 μg m<sup>&minus;3</sup>, although the indentified soluble species constitute only 53% of the mass. Much of the unidentified mass is likely organic in nature. 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