Online gas- and particle-phase measurements of organosulfates, organosulfonates and nitrooxy organosulfates in Beijing utilizing a FIGAERO ToF-CIMS

Le Breton, Michael; Wang, Yujue; Hallquist, Åsa M.; Pathak, Ravi Kant; Zheng, Jing; Yang, Yudong; Shang, Dongjie; Glasius, Marianne; Bannan, Thomas J.; Liu, Qianyun; Chan, Chak K.; Percival, Carl J.; Zhu, Wenfei; Lou, Shengrong; Topping, David; Wang, Yuchen; Yu, Jianzhen; Lu, Keding; Guo, Song; Hu, Min; Hallquist, Mattias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10355-2018

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19 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 19 Jul 2018

Online gas- and particle-phase measurements of organosulfates, organosulfonates and nitrooxy organosulfates in Beijing utilizing a FIGAERO ToF-CIMS

Michael Le Breton, Yujue Wang, Åsa M. Hallquist, Ravi Kant Pathak, Jing Zheng, Yudong Yang, Dongjie Shang, Marianne Glasius, Thomas J. Bannan, Qianyun Liu, Chak K. Chan, Carl J. Percival, Wenfei Zhu, Shengrong Lou, David Topping, Yuchen Wang, Jianzhen Yu, Keding Lu, Song Guo, Min Hu, and Mattias Hallquist

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RC1: 'Review of Le Breton et al., ACPD-2017-814', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Online gas and particle phase measurements of organosulfates, organosulfonates and nitrooxyorganosulfates in Beijing utilizing a FIGAERO ToF-CIMS', Anonymous Referee #3, 12 Dec 2017
AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Michael Le breton, 13 Feb 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (16 Apr 2018) by Willy Maenhaut

The authors have reasonably addressed the comments of the two anonymous referees and they have modified their manuscript accordingly. However, the comments given below should be addressed and numerous alterations are needed for the Main text and Supplement before the manuscript can be published in ACP.

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This paper utilizes a chemical ionisation mass spectrometer measuring gas and particle-phase organosulfates (OS) simultaneously during a field campaign in Beijing, China, and highlights how high time frequency online measurements enable a detailed analysis of dominant production mechanisms. We find that high aerosol acidity, organic precursor concentration and relative humidity promote the production of OS. The thermogram desorption reveals the potential for semi-volatile gas-phase OS.