Submicron particle mass concentrations and sources in the Amazonian wet season (AMAZE-08)

Chen, Q.; Farmer, D. K.; Rizzo, L. V.; Pauliquevis, T.; Kuwata, M.; Karl, T. G.; Guenther, A.; Allan, J. D.; Coe, H.; Andreae, M. O.; Pöschl, U.; Jimenez, J. L.; Artaxo, P.; Martin, S. T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3687-2015

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02 Apr 2015

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Submicron particle mass concentrations and sources in the Amazonian wet season (AMAZE-08)

Q. Chen, D. K. Farmer, L. V. Rizzo, T. Pauliquevis, M. Kuwata, T. G. Karl, A. Guenther, J. D. Allan, H. Coe, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl, J. L. Jimenez, P. Artaxo, and S. T. Martin

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RC C7267: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Sep 2014
RC C8845: 'Review of Chen et al.', Anonymous Referee #4, 06 Nov 2014
RC C9009: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #5, 10 Nov 2014
AC C12230: 'Response to the Referees', Qi Chen, 16 Feb 2015

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AR by Qi Chen on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (10 Mar 2015) by Willy Maenhaut

The authors have reasonably addressed the comments of the referees. However, a number of minor alterations are needed before the manuscript and its Supplement can be published in ACP.

For the main text:
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Line 271: Replace “AMAZE-08(Chen” by “AMAZE-08 (Chen”.
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Line 299: It is unclear what is meant by “statistical factories”. Should it perhaps be “statistical factors” instead?
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Pages 19-23: “Poschl” should be replaced by “Pöschl” (on 6 occasions).

For the Supplementary Material:
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Pages 11-12: There is no reference made within the text to the following references that are in the Reference list: “Docherty et al. (2008)”, “Gomez-Gonzalez et al. (2008)”, “Iinuma et al. (2009)”, and “Surratt et al. (2008)”.
Page 14, line 4: Replace “mass distributions” by “mass size distributions”.
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Submicron particle mass concentration in the Amazon during the wet season of 2008 was dominated by organic material. The PMF analysis finds a comparable importance of gas-phase (gas-to-particle condensation) and particle-phase (reactive uptake of isoprene oxidation products, especially of epoxydiols to acidic haze, fog, or cloud droplets) production of secondary organic material during the study period, together accounting for >70% of the organic-particle mass concentration.