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Characteristics of brown carbon in the urban Po Valley atmosphere
Francesca Costabile
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Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Stefania Gilardoni
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Francesca Barnaba
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Antonio Di Ianni
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Luca Di Liberto
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Davide Dionisi
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Maurizio Manigrasso
INAIL, Rome, Italy
Marco Paglione
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Vanes Poluzzi
ARPA ER, Bologna, Italy
Matteo Rinaldi
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Maria Cristina Facchini
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Gian Paolo Gobbi
Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
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We investigate the particle size distribution and spectral optical properties of brown carbon (BrC) associated with the formation of secondary aerosol in the ambient atmosphere and relate these properties to major aerosol chemical components. We found that BrC occurs in particles in the droplet mode size range, enriched in ammonium nitrate and poor in black carbon (BC), with a strong dependance on the organic aerosol to BC ratio.
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