Size Distribution Data for: CalNex 2010

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VESSEL: R/V Atlantis  DEPARTED: San Diego, California on 14 May, 2010 ARRIVED: San Francisco, California on 08 June 2010 Link to more CalNex 2010 pages

12-July-2011

PLEASE NOTE: These data are subject to revision and, thus, are password protected. If you wish to have the data please contact Jim Johnson or Timothy Bates for a password.

1. The first two data sets include particle number-size distributions in the diameter range of 0.020 to 0.8 micrometers Stokes diameter made with an "Aitken" DMPS (20 to 200 nm) and an "Accumulation" DMPS (200 to 800nm). All measurements were made at a relative humidity of 60%. The distributions have been cleaned of all data from times of instrument malfunction or calibration. Additionally, the data set with “filter” in the name contains only those distributions where the total CN concentrations were stable over the course of each measurement have been included.
   files: CALNEX_nsd_dmps_vX.csv CALNEX_nsd_dmps_filter_vX.csv

2. The second two data sets include particle number-size distributions in the diameter range of 0.96 to 10 micrometers aerodynamic diameter. The APS diameters are aerodynamic and have not been corrected to Stokes diameter via calculation or estimates of particle density. The APS data larger than 10 micrometers are not useful due to significant particle losses in the inlets including the ship's sampling mast, distribution tubing and APS inlet. All measurements were made at a relative humidity of 60%. The APS data have been cleaned exactly like the DMPS files described above.
   file: CALNEX_nsd_aps_vX.csv CALNEX_nsd_aps_filter_vX.csv

3. The third two data sets include particle number-size distributions in the diameter range of 0.020 to 10 micrometers Stokes diameter. The distributions are a combination of DMPS and APS data where the APS data have been converted to Stokes diameters. This conversion was done using densities calculated from measured chemistry. The diameter channels in the overlap region were chosen in the following manner: the last DMPS channel was discarded and, after converting to Stokes diameters, the first APS diameter channel that was larger than the last valid DMPS channel was chosen as the first APS channel. Each combined distribution was regridded onto a common set of diameters. Finally, the regridded distributions were cleaned to eliminate values at the larger sizes from the APS where “phantom” counts resulted in a spurious coarse mode in the surface and volume distributions. All measurements were made at a relative humidity of 60%.
   file: CALNEX_nsd_dmps_aps_vX.csv CALNEX_nsd_dmps_aps_filter_vX.csv

4. The fifth two data sets include particle mass-size distributions in the diameter range of 0.020 to 10 micrometers Stokes diameter, calculated from the number-size distributions described in the section 3 above. The conversion of number to mass was done using densities calculated from measured chemistry. (download only – not available for plotting)
   file: CALNEX_msd_dmps_aps_vX.csv CALNEX_msd_dmps_aps_filter_vX.csv

Table 1: Filename keywords

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The following files are available for downloading. Please note: one data file may cover more than one time period, thus,some files may be listed more than once. All files are in csv (comma separated value) format. After several lines of general information each file starts with a first row that contains the particle diameter in microns for that column. The first column contains the date/time in Day-of-Year, DOY. DOY 32.5 is 1200 noon UTC on 1-February. All data are in units of dN/dlog10(Dp), N/cm^3. Missing data are designated by a -99 or a -999.

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