Journal articles
LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles - Part 1: Principle of measurements and instrument evaluation
J. -B. Renard
1
F. Dulac
2
Gwenaël Berthet
1
T. Lurton
1
D. Vignelles
1
Fabrice Jégou
1
T. Tonnelier
C. Thaury
M. Jeannot
1
B. Couté
1
R. Akiki
J. -L. Mineau
N. Verdier
3
M. Mallet
4
F. Gensdarmes
5
P. Charpentier
S. Mesmin
V. Duverger
1
J. -C. Dupont
6
T. Elias
6
V. Crenn
2
J. Sciare
2
J. Giacomoni
M. Gobbi
E. Hamonou
2
H. Olafsson
P. Dagsson-Waldhauserova
C. Camy-Peyret
7
C. Mazel
T. Décamps
M. Piringer
J. Surcin
1
D. Daugeron
8
J. -B. Renard 1
Author
F. Dulac 2
Author
Gwenaël Berthet 1
Author Employer institution : Institut national des sciences de l'Univers IdHAL : gwenael-berthet ResearcherId : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-8010-2018 ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3169-1636
T. Lurton 1
Author
D. Vignelles 1
Author
Fabrice Jégou 1
Author IdHAL : fabrice-jegou ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3527-1399
T. Tonnelier
Author
C. Thaury
Author
D. Daugeron 8
Author
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LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (3A, Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2 - France)
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- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- Observatoire de Paris (61 Av de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- UO - Université d'Orléans (Château de la Source - Avenue du Parc Floral - BP 6749 - 45067 Orléans cedex 2 - France)
- CNES - Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] : UMR 7328 (Siège social : 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris - France)
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LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (Bât. 12,
avenue de la Terrasse,
F-91198 GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX
- France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers : UMR8212 (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- Université Paris-Saclay (Bâtiment Bréguet, 3 Rue Joliot Curie 2e ét, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8212 (France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DRF/LSCE (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines : UMR8212 (55 avenue de Paris - 78035 Versailles cedex - France)
3
CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (18 avenue Edouard Belin 31401 Toulouse - France)
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LAERO - Laboratoire d'aérologie (14 avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse - France)
- UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (118 route de Narbonne - 31062 Toulouse - France)
- Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (41 Allée Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse - France)
- OMP - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 TOULOUSE - France)
- CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (18 avenue Edouard Belin 31401 Toulouse - France)
- Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (41 Allée Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UAR 831 (France)
- IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Siège Le Sextant 44, bd de Dunkerque CS 90009 13572 Marseille cedex 02 - France)
- Météo-France (73 avenue de Paris 94165 Saint-Mande Cedex - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5560 (France)
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LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD ENS 24 Rue Lhomond 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris (24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France - France)
- ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris (45, Rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris (45, Rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8539 (France)
- ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech (École des Ponts ParisTech 6-8 avenue Blaise-Pascal Cité Descartes 77455 Champs-sur-Marne Marne-la-Vallée cedex 2 - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (4 place Jussieu - 75005 Paris - France)
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IPSL - Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (4 Place Jussieu 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 - France)
- ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris (45, Rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (55 avenue de Paris - 78035 Versailles cedex - France)
- UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (4 place Jussieu - 75005 Paris - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (18 avenue Edouard Belin 31401 Toulouse - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : FR636 (France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
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UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne (49, bd François-Mitterrand / CS 60032 / 63001 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1 - France)
Abstract : The study of aerosols in the troposphere and in the stratosphere is of major importance both for climate and air quality studies. Among the numerous instruments available, aerosol particles counters provide the size distribution in diameter range from few hundreds of nm to few tens of μm. Most of them are very sensitive to the nature of aerosols, and this can result in significant biases in the retrieved size distribution. We describe here a new versatile optical particle/sizer counter (OPC) named LOAC (Light Optical Aerosols Counter), which is light and compact enough to perform measurements not only at the surface but under all kinds of balloons in the troposphere and in the stratosphere. LOAC is an original OPC performing observations at two scattering angles. The first one is around 12°, and is almost insensitive to the nature of the particles; the second one is around 60° and is strongly sensitive to the refractive index of the particles. By combining measurement at the two angles, it is possible to retrieve accurately the size distribution and to estimate the nature of the dominant particles (droplets, carbonaceous, salts and mineral particles) in several size classes. This speciation is based on calibration charts obtained in the laboratory. Several campaigns of cross-comparison of LOAC with other particle counting instruments and remote sensing photometers have been conducted to validate both the size distribution derived by LOAC and the retrieved particle number density. The speciation of the aerosols has been validated in well-defined conditions including urban pollution, desert dust episodes, fog, and cloud. Comparison with reference aerosol mass monitoring instruments also shows that the LOAC measurements can be successfully converted to mass concentrations. All these tests indicate that no bias is present in the LOAC measurements and in the corresponding data processing.
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- DOI : 10.5194/amtd-8-1203-2015
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J. -B. Renard, F. Dulac, Gwenaël Berthet, T. Lurton, D. Vignelles, et al.. LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles - Part 1: Principle of measurements and instrument evaluation. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, Copernicus Publications / European Geosciences Union 2015, 8, pp.1203-1259. ⟨10.5194/amtd-8-1203-2015⟩. ⟨insu-03577167⟩
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