Elemental composition of ambient aerosols measured with high temporal resolution using an online XRF spectrometer

Furger, Markus; Minguillón, María Cruz; Yadav, Varun; Slowik, Jay G.; Hüglin, Christoph; Fröhlich, Roman; Petterson, Krag; Baltensperger, Urs; Prévôt, André S. H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2061-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2061-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2061-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

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07 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 07 Jun 2017

Elemental composition of ambient aerosols measured with high temporal resolution using an online XRF spectrometer

Markus Furger, María Cruz Minguillón, Varun Yadav, Jay G. Slowik, Christoph Hüglin, Roman Fröhlich, Krag Petterson, Urs Baltensperger, and André S. H. Prévôt

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RC1: 'Revisions of the doc', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Feb 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Markus Furger, 05 Apr 2017
RC2: 'RC2', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Feb 2017
- AC3: 'Response to Referee #2', Markus Furger, 05 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Referee report', Anonymous Referee #3, 12 Feb 2017
- AC4: 'Response to Referee #3', Markus Furger, 06 Apr 2017
AC2: 'Additional corrections', Markus Furger, 05 Apr 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Markus Furger on behalf of the Authors (06 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (18 Apr 2017) by Willy Maenhaut

The authors have reasonably addressed the comments of the three anonymous referees and they have modified their manuscript accordingly. However, several alterations are needed before the manuscript can be published in AMT.

For both the main text and the Supplement:
The numeric concentration data and the percentage concentrations are given with too many significant figures. Three significant figures suffice when the first significant figure is a "1" and two significant suffice in the other cases.

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Pages 12-15, Reference list:
- abbreviated journal names should be used throughout;
- titles of journal articles should be in lower case and not in Title Case.
Page 15, lines 39-42: Yatkin et al. (2012) should come before Yatkin et al. (2016).
Page 17, Figure 2: The text in the right ordinate does not come out properly.
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Page 28, footnote 2) of Table 2: Replace "Gälli" by "Gälli Purghart".
Page 28, footnote 7) of Table 2: "Alastuey et al. 2016" is not in the Reference list.

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AR by Markus Furger on behalf of the Authors (20 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (25 Apr 2017) by Willy Maenhaut

AR by Markus Furger on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Apr 2017) by Willy Maenhaut

Short summary

An Xact 625 Ambient Metals Monitor was tested during a 3-week summer field campaign at a rural, traffic-influenced site in Switzerland. The objective was to characterize the operation of the instrument, evaluate the data quality by intercomparison with other independent measurements, and test its applicability for aerosol source quantification. The results demonstrate significant advantages compared to traditional elemental analysis methods, with some desirable improvements.