Sources and formation of carbonaceous aerosols  in Xi'an, China: primary emissions and secondary  formation constrained by radiocarbon

Ni, Haiyan; Huang, Ru-Jin; Cao, Junji; Guo, Jie; Deng, Haoyue; Dusek, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15609-2019

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20 Dec 2019

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Sources and formation of carbonaceous aerosols in Xi'an, China: primary emissions and secondary formation constrained by radiocarbon

Haiyan Ni, Ru-Jin Huang, Junji Cao, Jie Guo, Haoyue Deng, and Ulrike Dusek

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RC1: 'Reviewer's comments to ACP-2019-437', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Referee's comments to ACP-2019-437', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Aug 2019
AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Ru-Jin Huang, 15 Oct 2019

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AR by Ru-Jin Huang on behalf of the Authors (15 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Nov 2019) by Willy Maenhaut

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

For the Main text:
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Page 5, line 11: Replace "total carbon (TC = OC + EC)" by "TC" as TC was already defined in line 13 of page 4.
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Page 8, line 11: Replace "Levin and Hammer, 2013; Levin et al., 2010" by "Levin et al., 2010, 2013".
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Page 8, line 23, and also further within the text: the "EC tracer method" is mentioned without any literature reference. At least one literature reference is needed for it. I suggest including the following literature reference here: "Turpin and Huntzicker, 1995"; the full reference for it is: Turpin, B. J. and Huntzicker, J. J.: Identification of secondary organic aerosol episodes and quantitation of primary and secondary organic aerosol concentrations during SCAQS, Atmos. Environ., 29, 3527-3544, 1995.
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Page 9, line 19: "0 at the lower limit and upper limit" is unclear to me. How can it be 0 at the upper limit?
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We present a 1-year source apportionment record of carbonaceous aerosols in Xi'an, China. Biomass burning strongly increases in winter, while seasonal changes of coal and liquid fossil fuel combustion are moderate. We find strong evidence for fossil secondary OC formation during the warm period that is further enhanced in stagnant, polluted conditions due to longer atmospheric residence times. At the same time we find that water-insoluble (primary) fossil is lost due to photochemical processing.