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Taylor and Francis Group, Aerosol Science and Technology, 10(47), p. 1066-1072, 2013

DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2013.821196

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Evaluation of a Perpendicular Inlet for Airborne Sampling of Interstitial Submicron Black-Carbon Aerosol

Journal article published in 2013 by A. E. Perring, J. P. Schwarz, R. S. Gao, A. J. Heymsfield, C. G. Schmitt, M. Schnaiter, D. W. Fahey ORCID
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Abstract

The majority of airborne aerosol measurements employ forward-facing inlets with near-isokinetic sampling; these inlets have known artifacts when sampling in clouds such that data taken in cloud must typically be discarded. Here we report first results from a perpendicular inlet for sampling interstitial submicron black-carbon (BC) containing aerosol. The inlet, consisting of a flat plate to stabilize flow prior to perpendicular sampling, was evaluated using a single particle soot photometer (SP2) aboard the NASA WB-57F aircraft during the Midlatitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) of 2011. The new inlet rejects large particles and is free of aerosol artifacts when sampling in ice clouds while allowing sampling of submicron BC-containing aerosol with the same unit efficiency as a validated isokinetic inlet, thus allowing for airborne sampling of interstitial BC aerosol.Copyright 2013 American Association for Aerosol Research