Characterization of biomass burning emissions from cooking fires, peat, crop residue, and other fuels with high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Stockwell, C. E.; Veres, P. R.; Williams, J.; Yokelson, R. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-845-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-845-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-845-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

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23 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 23 Jan 2015

Characterization of biomass burning emissions from cooking fires, peat, crop residue, and other fuels with high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry

C. E. Stockwell, P. R. Veres, J. Williams, and R. J. Yokelson

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RC C8001: 'Review of Stockwell et al. 'Characterization of biomass burning smoke from cooking fires, peat, crop residue, and other fuels with high resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry'', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Oct 2014
- AC C9950: 'Final response to Referee 1 in supplement', Robert Yokelson, 08 Dec 2014
RC C9232: 'Review of acp-2014-584', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Nov 2014
- AC C9952: 'Final Response to Referee 2 in supplement 2', Robert Yokelson, 08 Dec 2014

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ED: Publish as is (09 Dec 2014) by Dominick Spracklen

AR by Robert Yokelson on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2014)

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We used a high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer to measure emissions from peat, crop residue, cooking fires, etc. We assigned > 80% of the mass of gas-phase organic compounds and much of it was secondary organic aerosol precursors. The open cooking emissions were much larger than from advanced cookstoves. Little-studied N-containing organic compounds accounted for 0.1-8.7% of the fuel N and may influence new particle formation.