Development and Use of a Perfluorocarbon Tracer System (PERTRAS)
Final Report Abstract
An Ion Trap Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (ITCIMS) was developed and integrated into the Falcon and HALO research aircraft. The measurement capabilities of the ITCIMS were extended in the phase 2 of the project covering now the trace species PAN, PPN, HNO3, SO2, H2SO4. The ITCIMS was deployed during 3 Falcon and 3 HALO campaigns including SHIVA, ACCESS, DEEPWAVE (Falcon) and ESMVal/TACTS, ACRIDICON, OMO (HALO). The Falcon campaigns were performed in order to make use of the instrument in the time period until HALO is operational for scientific missions. One main focus of these Falcon and HALO campaigns was long-range transport and regional/global impact of growing emissions (SO2, reactive nitrogen) from East Asia. Also, ITCIMS data obtained during the phase1 of the project at ground facilities and during Falcon campaigns were further analysed and published. This included airborne measurements on the long-range transport of PAN and SO2 from biomass burning sources in Siberia and Africa, ground-based measurements of the H2SO4 diurnal variation at the mountain station Schneefernerhaus, and H2SO4 emissions of heavy duty truck diesel engines.
Publications
- African biomass burning plumes over the Atlantic: aircraft based measurements and implications for H2SO4 and HNO3 mediated smoke particle activation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, pp 3211-3225
Fiedler, V., Arnold, F. Ludmann, S., Minikin, A., Pirjola, L., Dörnbrack, A., Schlager, H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-3211-2011) - An aircraft-borne chemical ionization – ion trap mass spectrometer (CI-ITMS) for fast PAN and PPN measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech. 4, 173-188
Roiger, A., Aufmhoff, H., Stock, P., Arnold, F., and Schlager, H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-173-2011) - An ion trap CIMS instrument for combined measurements of atmospheric OH and H2SO4: First test measurements above and inside the planetary boundary layer. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 308 (1), pp 26-34
Aufmhoff, H., Hanke, M., Uecker, J., Schlager, H., Arnold, F.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2011.07.016) - In-situ observation of Asian pollution transported into the Arctic lowermost stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10975-10994
Roiger, A., Schlager, H., Schäfler, A., Huntrieser, H., Scheibe, M., Aufmhoff, H., Cooper, O. R., Sodemann, H., Stohl, A., Burkhart, J., Lazzara, M., Schiller, C., Law, K. S., and Arnold, F.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-10975-2011) - Chemical ionization mass spectrometric measurements of atmospheric trace gases. In: Atmospheric Physics: Background - Methods - Trends Research Topics in Aerospace. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 277-296. ISBN 978-3-642-30182-7. 2012
Aufmhoff, H., Schäuble, D., Roiger, A., Arnold, F., Jurkat, T., Voigt, C., Schlager, H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30183-4_17) - First on-line measurements of sulphuric acid gas in modern heavy duty diesel engine exhaust: Implications for nanoparticle formation, Environmental Science & Technology, 46, 11227−11234, 2012
Arnold, F., Pirjola, L., Rönkkö,T., Reichl, U., Schlager, H., Lähde, T., Heikkilä J., J. Keskinen, J.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/es302432s) - Quantifying emerging local anthropogenic emissions in the Arctic region: the ACCESS aircraft campaign experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (3), Seiten 441-460
Roiger, A., Thomas, J., Schlager, H., Law, K., Kim, J., Schäfler, A., Weinzierl, B., Dahlkötter, F., Krisch, I., Marelle, L., Minikin, A., Raut, J-C., Reiter, A., Rose, M., Scheibe, M., Stock, P., Baumann, R., Bourarar, I., Clerbaux, C., George, M., Onishi, T., Flemming, J.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00169.1) - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) from MIPAS in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere 2002–2012. Atmos. Chem. Phy., 15, 7017-7037
Höpfner, M., Boone, C. D., Funke, B., Glatthor, N., Grabowski, U., Günther, A., Kellmann, S., Kiefer, M., Linden, A., Lossow, S., Pumphrey, H. C., Read, W., Roiger, A., Stiller, G., Schlager, H., von Clarmann, T., Wissmüller, K.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7017-2015) - The ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign: Studying tropical deep convective clouds and precipitation over Amazonia using the new German research aircraft HALO, Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 2016.54
Wendisch, M., U. Pöschl, M. O. Andreae, L. A. T. Machado, R. Albrecht, H. Schlager, et al.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00255.1)
