Source attribution of aerosol size distributions and model evaluation using  Whistler Mountain measurements and GEOS-Chem-TOMAS simulations

D'Andrea, S. D.; Ng, J. Y.; Kodros, J. K.; Atwood, S. A.; Wheeler, M. J.; Macdonald, A. M.; Leaitch, W. R.; Pierce, J. R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-383-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-383-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-383-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

Research article

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18 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 18 Jan 2016

Source attribution of aerosol size distributions and model evaluation using Whistler Mountain measurements and GEOS-Chem-TOMAS simulations

S. D. D'Andrea, J. Y. Ng, J. K. Kodros, S. A. Atwood, M. J. Wheeler, A. M. Macdonald, W. R. Leaitch, and J. R. Pierce

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RC C8107: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Oct 2015
- AC C10527: 'Response to referee #1', Stephen D’Andrea, 16 Dec 2015
RC C9037: 'Interactive comment on “Source attribution of aerosol size distributions and model evaluation using Whistler Mountain measurements and GEOS-Chem-TOMAS simulations”', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Nov 2015
- AC C10528: 'Response to referee #2', Stephen D’Andrea, 16 Dec 2015

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Dec 2015) by Barbara Ervens

ED: Publish as is (06 Jan 2016) by Barbara Ervens

AR by Stephen D’Andrea on behalf of the Authors (06 Jan 2016)

Short summary

We evaluate aerosol size distributions predicted by GEOS-Chem-TOMAS using measurements from the peak of Whistler Mountain. We improve model-measurement comparisons of aerosol number, size, and composition during periods of free-tropospheric and boundary-layer influence by developing simple filtering techniques, and determine the influence of Asian anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions. The low-cost filtering techniques and source apportionment methods can be used for other mountain sites.