Polyols and glucose particulate species as tracers of primary biogenic organic aerosols at 28 French sites

Samaké, Abdoulaye; Jaffrezo, Jean-Luc; Favez, Olivier; Weber, Samuël; Jacob, Véronique; Albinet, Alexandre; Riffault, Véronique; Perdrix, Esperanza; Waked, Antoine; Golly, Benjamin; Salameh, Dalia; Chevrier, Florie; Oliveira, Diogo Miguel; Bonnaire, Nicolas; Besombes, Jean-Luc; Martins, Jean M. F.; Conil, Sébastien; Guillaud, Géraldine; Mesbah, Boualem; Rocq, Benoit; Robic, Pierre-Yves; Hulin, Agnès; Le Meur, Sébastien; Descheemaecker, Maxence; Chretien, Eve; Marchand, Nicolas; Uzu, Gaëlle

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3357-2019

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15 Mar 2019

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| 15 Mar 2019

Polyols and glucose particulate species as tracers of primary biogenic organic aerosols at 28 French sites

Abdoulaye Samaké, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Olivier Favez, Samuël Weber, Véronique Jacob, Alexandre Albinet, Véronique Riffault, Esperanza Perdrix, Antoine Waked, Benjamin Golly, Dalia Salameh, Florie Chevrier, Diogo Miguel Oliveira, Nicolas Bonnaire, Jean-Luc Besombes, Jean M. F. Martins, Sébastien Conil, Géraldine Guillaud, Boualem Mesbah, Benoit Rocq, Pierre-Yves Robic, Agnès Hulin, Sébastien Le Meur, Maxence Descheemaecker, Eve Chretien, Nicolas Marchand, and Gaëlle Uzu

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RC1: 'Review of Samake et al.', Anonymous Referee #4, 29 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to referee #4', Abdoulaye SAMAKE, 18 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Referee Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to referee #3', Abdoulaye SAMAKE, 18 Dec 2018

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AR by Abdoulaye SAMAKE on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Dec 2018) by Willy Maenhaut

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (14 Jan 2019)

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General Comments
The authors answered all the critics and questions posed by the referee in relation to the initial submitted version of the manuscript, correcting /completing the manuscript in accordance.
The main problem present in the initial submission – too little information concerning the PMF treatment of the data – is now attenuated with the new incorporation of text, tables and figures in the main manuscript and principally in the annex section.
Therefore, I recommend the acceptance of the manuscript for publication with only minor corrections.

Specific Comments
Line 73: change “site” to “sites”
Lines 214-216: does not seem correct to label as EC to the sum of BCwb with BCff. Why not BC?
Line 176 and others: the tables and figures in the annex are called sometimes as “SI” other times as “S” in the main text and in the annex section. Please make uniform labelling.
Line 506: I have doubts about the correctness of using Putaud et al (2004b) coefficient (5.6) to estimate the dust fraction. The Figure in Putaud et al (2004b) (Figure 2) from where this coefficient was taken reveals a very large dispersion (R2=0.31) and is highly influenced by one only value. If this sample was removed the coefficient would be much more similar to the value of 15 obtained during the outbreak of Sahara dust. The Ca average fraction in the continental crust gives coefficient values of 28-35 (Mason B. and Moore C. B.: Principles of Geochemistry, 4 Edn., Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982. Wedepohl, K. H.: The composition of the continental crust, Geochim. Cosmochim. Ac., 59, 1217–1232, 1995). Comparison of relative ratio values between Al, Fe, Ca2+ and Ti, in table S6 and in the average crust, shows that in the PBOA factor the proportions of these soil tracers are quite different from the crust, which makes difficult the calculation of a soil contribution in PBOA.

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RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (22 Jan 2019)

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L.47: PLase add “organic matter (OM)”

L. 48-51: I find the current ending of the abstract somewhat confusing, going into details on a minor contribution of dust. My suggestion would be instead to provide some “useful” results from the analysis, which will certainly increase impact and relevancy of the work. One aspect that comes to my mind would be the estimate of PBOA mass concentration based on polyols (or individual arabitol or manitol), a number which you can provide with uncertainties based on PMF analysis of 1-year sampling from 16 sites (no small feat).And then finalizing with a well designed sentence on the goal and relevancy of this study would wrap up much better the abstract, in my opinion.

L.64: …”whereas a significant fraction of OM can also be associated with…”

L.80-81: “…have long been suggested as tracers of PBOA (refs here). For instance…”

L.91: As the reader may not be familiar with specialized fluorescent based instrumentation, I’d suggest the following replacement: ”with real-time detectors of fluorescent PBOA (such as UV-APS and WIBS-3), particularly in rainy periods…”

L.102: remove “actually”

L.103: ”…(Wang et al., 2018) , although studies…”

L.117: please remove “(i.e. atmospheric input processes)

L.123: Please remove the comma prior “in France”.

L.130-133: The reader needs to be guided through the results, and not be “explained to” why some results are not being shown. Unless referring to a companion, such references to future publications do not seem well-suited and I find that your manuscript would be better without it.

Figure 4: Does the spread of the slope arabitol vs Mannitol makes more sense if separated by biome (or coarsely by region?).

L.334: please remove “into”.

Section 3.4.1 and so forth: Please include the caveat that different sampling sites do not correspond to the same time period (you could be biased an “urban” site by a rainy summer, for example).

L.413-416: This needs to be rewritten, or removed.

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Feb 2019) by Willy Maenhaut

As the two anonymous referees had substantial comments for the ACPD version of the manuscript, they were asked to have a look at the revised version of the manuscript. Both referees felt that the revised manuscript can be published in ACP after minor corrections. The comments of anonymous Referee # 3 need to be taken care of and those of anonymous Referee # 4 should be addressed where possible (for a number of his/her comments, reference is made to wrong line numbers).
Furthermore, I have the following comments and corrections, which need to be addressed.

For the Main text:
Line 33: Replace "are using" by "is using".
Line 37, and on 9 other occasions throughout the Main text: replace "i.e. " by "i.e., ".
Line 44, and on 9 other occasions throughout the Main text: replace "e.g. " by "e.g., ".
Line 71: Replace "comprises living" by "comprise living".
Line 77: Replace "cells culture" by "cell culture".
Line 85: Replace "energy materials" by "energy material".
Line 90: Abbreviations and acronyms (here UV-APS and WIBS) should be defined (written full-out) when first used. Since the terms are only used here, they should only be written full-out.
Line 145: Replace "area of" by "areas of".
Line 159: Replace "than for" by "as for".
Line 167: Replace "Particulate organic matter (OM)" by "OM", as OM was already defined in line 58.
Line 176: Abbreviations and acronyms (here HPLC) should be defined (written full-out) when first used.
Line 185: Replace "an IC" by " an ion chromatography (IC) instrument".
Line 186: Replace "columns has" by "column has".
Line 188: Replace "enable to" by "enables to".
Line 192: Replace "are generally" by "is generally".
Line 224: Replace "in this factor in the" by "in the".
Line 255: Replace "as the most" by "are the most ".
Line 273: R2 values are not correlation coefficients, but coefficients of determination. Therefore, replace "correlation coefficients" by "coefficients of determination".
Line 286: Replace "are most" by "is most".
Line 328: There is no "Yttri et al., 2007" in the Reference list, but there are "Yttri et al., 2007a" and "Yttri et al., 2007b". Specify to which one of these two reference is made here.
Line 332: Replace "are then at" by "are at".
Line 339: Replace "at Beijing" by "in Beijing".
Line 360: There is no "Yttri et al., 2007" in the Reference list, but there are "Yttri et al., 2007a" and "Yttri et al., 2007b". Specify to which one of these two reference is made here.
Line 371: Replace "in Belgium" by "in Norway".
Line 379: Replace "fungi etc." by "fungi, etc.".
Line 388: Replace "organic matter content (OM)" by "OM content", as OM was already defined in line 58.
Line 409: Replace "represent only" by "represents only".
Line 428: Replace "in term" by "in terms".
Line 431: Replace "these 16 sites" by "the 16 sites".
Line 440: Replace "duration etc." by "duration, etc." and replace "do not show" by "does not show".
Line 443: There is no "Bauer et al., 2008" in the Reference list, but there are "Bauer et al., 2008a" and "Bauer et al., 2008b". Specify to which one of these two reference is made here.
Lines 477-478: According to me, OC* should correspond to the bulk organic carbon fraction minus the carbon in the characterized organic species.
Line 489: Replace "clearly revealed" by "clearly reveals".
Line 499: Replace "are most likely" by "is most likely".
Line 541: Abbreviations and acronyms (here 3-MBTCA) should be defined (written full-out) when first used. Since 3-MBTCA is not used elsewhere in the Main text, replace "3-MBTCA" by "3-methylbutanecarboxylic acid".
Line 548: Replace "to statistically" by "to a statistically".
Line 556: Replace "leaded by the" by "led by the".
Line 567: Abbreviations and acronyms (here PI) should be defined (written full-out) when first used.
Pages 20-26, Reference list: Titles of journal articles should be in lower case and not in Title Case. Alterations are therefore needed for:
- Aiken et al., 2008;
- Jia and Fraser, 2011;
- Ruijter et al., 2003;
- Sandradewi et al., 2008.
Line 640: "Chemical and Physical Meteorology" should be abbreviated.
Line 648: The publication year, i.e., 2016, should be added at the end of the reference.
Lines 646-651: "Favez et al., 2016" should come after "Favez et al., 2010".
Lines 837-845: "Yttri et al., 2011" should come after "Yttri et al., 2007b".
Lines 857-861: "Zhu et al., 2016" should come after "Zhu et al., 2015".
Line 860: Replace "north pacific" by "North Pacific".

For the Supplementary information:
Title: Add "Supplementary Information for:".
Page 5, Table S3: It is unclear what „a“ coefficient denotes; some explanation is needed.
Page 7, line 2 below heading "Overview of source contributions": I presume that it should be "Table S5" instead of "Table S3".
Page 8, Figure S4: "Normalized contributions" to what? To the PM mass? Please, specify.
Page 10, footnote of Table S6: According to me, OC* should correspond to the bulk organic carbon fraction minus the carbon in the characterized organic species
Page 10, last two lines: The co-author names should be added for this reference.

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The contribution of primary biogenic organic aerosols to PM is barely documented. This work provides a broad overview of the spatiotemporal evolution of concentrations and contributions to OM of dominant primary sugar alcohols and saccharides for a large selection of environmental conditions in France (28 sites and more than 5 340 samples). These chemicals are ubiquitous, and are associated with coarse aerosols. Their concentrations display site-to-site and clear seasonal variations.