Climatology of aerosol properties at an atmospheric monitoring site on the northern California coast

Boedicker, Erin K.; Andrews, Elisabeth; Sheridan, Patrick J.; Quinn, Patricia K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9525-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9525-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9525-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 16

Research article

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29 Aug 2023

Research article |

| 29 Aug 2023

Climatology of aerosol properties at an atmospheric monitoring site on the northern California coast

Erin K. Boedicker, Elisabeth Andrews, Patrick J. Sheridan, and Patricia K. Quinn

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9525-2023-supplement

Data sets

Time series of aerosol light scattering coefficients and enhancement factors from tandem-humidified nephelometer at twenty-six stations between 1998 and 2017 M. A. Burgos, P. Zieger, E. Andrews, G. Titos, J. Sherman, A. Jefferson, N. Mihalopoulos, G. Kouvarakis, N. Kalivitis, J. Sun, L. Alados-Arboledas, and D. Day https://doi.org/10.21336/GEN.4

NOAA Regional Aerosol Sampling Stations P. K. Quinn https://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/data/

Meteorology Data I. Crocker and NOAA GML https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/data/meteorology/in-situ/thd/

Earth System Research Laboratory Long-Term Surface Aerosol Measurements P. Sheridan, D. Hageman, and NOAA GML https://doi.org/10.7289/V55T3HJF

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We present 15 years of measurements from a marine site on the northern California coast and characterize the seasonal trends of aerosol ion composition and optical properties at the site. We investigate the relationship between the chemical and optical properties and show that they both support similar seasonal variations in aerosol sources at the site. Additionally, we show through comparisons to other marine aerosol observations that the site is representative of a clean marine environment.