Estimating contributions from biomass burning, fossil fuel combustion, and biogenic carbon to carbonaceous aerosols in the Valley of Chamonix: a dual approach based on radiocarbon and levoglucosan

Bonvalot, Lise; Tuna, Thibaut; Fagault, Yoann; Jaffrezo, Jean-Luc; Jacob, Véronique; Chevrier, Florie; Bard, Edouard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13753-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13753-2016

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07 Nov 2016

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Estimating contributions from biomass burning, fossil fuel combustion, and biogenic carbon to carbonaceous aerosols in the Valley of Chamonix: a dual approach based on radiocarbon and levoglucosan

Lise Bonvalot, Thibaut Tuna, Yoann Fagault, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Véronique Jacob, Florie Chevrier, and Edouard Bard

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RC1: 'Referee comment on L. Bonvalot et al. "Estimating contributions from biomass burning and fossil fuel combustion by means of radiocarbon analysis of carbonaceous aerosols: application to the Valley of Chamonix"', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Author response RC1', Lise Bonvalot, 07 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Author response RC2', Lise Bonvalot, 07 Sep 2016
SC1: 'Comment on “Estimating contributions from biomass burning and fossil fuel combustion by means of radiocarbon analysis of carbonaceous aerosols: application to the Valley of Chamonix” by Bonvalot et al', Susanne Preunkert, 08 Aug 2016
- AC4: 'Author response SC1', Lise Bonvalot, 07 Sep 2016
AC3: 'Revised manuscript with tracked changes', Lise Bonvalot, 07 Sep 2016

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AR by Lise Bonvalot on behalf of the Authors (08 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (25 Sep 2016) by Willy Maenhaut

The authors have reasonably addressed the interactive comments and they have modified their manuscript accordingly.
However, I have several comments that need to be taken into account before this manuscript can be published in ACP.

Page 2, line 23: Replace "importance in PM" by "importance of PM".
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Page 2, line 32: Acronyms, here "CMB" and "PMF" should be defined (written full-out) when first used.
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Page 3, line 3: Replace "demonstrated as an effective" by "demonstrated to be an effective".
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Page 6, lines 2 and 7: It is unclear what "FC" indicates. Should it perhaps be "F14CC" instead?
Page 6, line 4: Replace "onto quartz" by "onto a quartz".
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Page 7, line 29: Replace "1649a(Currie" by "1649a (Currie".
Page 8, line 14: Replace "2005))" by "2005)".
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Page 9, line 23: Replace "thermo-optical" by "thermal-optical".
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Page 15, line 22: Replace "BVOCs emissions" by "BVOC emissions".
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Pages 17-24, References:
1. For references with 3 or more authors, there should be a comma before the "and" preceding the last author. Note that there should be no comma before the "and" for references with only 2 authors.
2. The abbreviated journal names should contain a period (.); for example, it should be "Atmos. Chem. Phys." instead of "Atmos Chem Phys".
3. Titles of journal articles should be in lower case instead of in Title Case; thus a correction is needed for, e.g., the title in Birch and Cary (1996) and in Currie et al. (2002).
Page 24, line 21: Replace "Discuss, 12(7), 17657-17702, doi:105194/acpd-12-17657-2012" by "12, 10841-10856, doi:105194/acp-12-10841-2012"
Pages 25-30: The Table headings should be placed above the tables instead of below.
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Page 31, text in right ordinate of Figure 1(a): Replace "Oxa2" by "OxA2".
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AR by Lise Bonvalot on behalf of the Authors (27 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (12 Oct 2016) by Willy Maenhaut

AR by Lise Bonvalot on behalf of the Authors (12 Oct 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Oct 2016) by Willy Maenhaut

AR by Lise Bonvalot on behalf of the Authors (17 Oct 2016) Manuscript

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The contribution of fossil and non-fossil carbon sources to aerosols sampled in the Arve River valley is quantified with ¹⁴C measured by AMS with a CO₂ gas source. Results show a high contribution of non-fossil carbon sources during winter, which is highly correlated to levoglucosan concentration, showing that almost all of the non-fossil carbon originates from wood combustion. This correlation is also used to separate the contributions of wood burning and biogenic emissions for summer samples.