Estimation of atmospheric total organic carbon (TOC) – paving the path towards carbon budget closure

Yang, Mingxi; Fleming, Zoë L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-459-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-459-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-459-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

Research article

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14 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 14 Jan 2019

Estimation of atmospheric total organic carbon (TOC) – paving the path towards carbon budget closure

Mingxi Yang and Zoë L. Fleming

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RC1: 'Review of Yang and Fleming', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'reply to referee 1', Mingxi Yang, 28 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review of ACP-2018-1055', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'reply to referee 2', Mingxi Yang, 28 Nov 2018
SC1: 'Comments on Yang and Fleming, ACP-2018-1055', James Roberts, 26 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'reply to James Roberts', Mingxi Yang, 28 Nov 2018

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AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (12 Dec 2018) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Dec 2018) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

AR by Mingxi Yang on behalf of the Authors (15 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Dec 2018) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

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The atmosphere contains thousands of different organic compounds but the quantification of their total burden has been a technical challenge. This hinders our understanding in atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, and global carbon cycling. Here we present a novel and robust method to measure total atmospheric organic carbon. By comparing the total organic carbon concentration in marine air to the sum of speciated organic measurements, we aim to estimate the pool of undetected organic species.