Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1043-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1043-2017
Research article
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16 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2017

The filter-loading effect by ambient aerosols in filter absorption photometers depends on the coating of the sampled particles

Luka Drinovec, Asta Gregorič, Peter Zotter, Robert Wolf, Emily Anne Bruns, André S. H. Prévôt, Jean-Eudes Petit, Olivier Favez, Jean Sciare, Ian J. Arnold, Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Hans Moosmüller, Agnes Filep, and Griša Močnik

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Black carbon measurements are usually conducted with absorption filter photometers, which are prone to the filter-loading effect – a saturation of the instrumental response due to the accumulation of the sample in the filter matrix. In this paper, we conducted several field campaigns to investigate the hypothesis that this filter-loading effect depends on the optical properties of particles present in the filter matrix, especially on the coating of black carbon particles.