CPMA-SP2 Wildfire smoke data
Authors/Creators
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University of Alberta
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National Research Council
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University of Alberta
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National Research Council
Description
Datasets for "Comparison of the LEO and CPMA-SP2 techniques for black-carbon mixing-state measurements"
- Title: Comparison of the LEO and CPMA-SP2 techniques for black-carbon mixing-state measurements
- Authors: Arash Naseri, Joel C. Corbin, Jason S. Olfert
- Affiliation:
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Metrology Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Correspondence: Arash Naseri (arash@ualberta.ca)
- Accepted: 2 April 2024
- Published: [Date]
The purpose of providing these datasets is to enhance clarity and reproducibility of the results presented in the paper. By making the data available, we aim to facilitate further research, enable verification of our findings, and support transparency in the scientific process.
- Location: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (50°39'58.4"N, 120°21'45.5"W)
- Nearby Air Quality Station: 2.2 km away
- Nearby Highway: 0.7 km from the Trans-Canada highway
- Experiment Dates: 21 and 22 July 2021
- Time Period: 21 July, 11:54 to 13:44 LT
- PM2.5 Concentrations: 1.7 to 4 μg/m³
- Description: Low concentrations of mostly thinly coated rBC particles, presumably due to urban and highway emissions, and possibly some wildfire smoke.
- Time Period: 22 July, 11:31 to 12:41 LT
- PM2.5 Concentrations: 10 to 81 μg/m³
- Description: Moderate concentrations with a mixture of thinly and thickly coated rBC particles due to urban emissions and nearby forest fires.
- Time Period: 22 July, 10:23 to 11:29 LT
- PM2.5 Concentrations: 122 to 104 μg/m³
- Description: High concentrations with mostly thickly coated rBC particles due to wildfire smoke.
The MATLAB code used to generate the CPMA-SP2 results is publicly available at https://github.com/tsipkens/bidias. This code is specifically designed to invert tandem aerosol measurments, particularly in this paper CPMA-SP2 measurements to find two-dimensional size distributions.
For generating SP2-LEO and Lagtime analysis, the SP2 toolkit version 4.118 was used. This toolkit is also publicly accessible and can be found at https://zenodo.org/records/3575186.
Schwarz, J.P., & Gao, R.S. (2019).
SP2 toolkit 4.118. Zenodo repository. Available at https://zenodo.org/records/3575186. Last accessed 2024-05-27.