Particulate trimethylamine in the summertime Canadian high Arctic lower troposphere

2017

Abstract. Size-resolved and vertical profile measurements of single particle chemical composition (sampling altitude range 50–3000 m) were conducted in July 2014 in the Canadian high Arctic during the aircraft-based measurement campaign NETCARE 2014. We deployed the single particle laser ablation aerosol mass spectrometer ALABAMA (vacuum aerodynamic diameter range approximately 200–1000 nm) to identify different particle types and their mixing states. On basis of the single particle analysis, we found that a significant fraction (23 %) of all analyzed particles (in total: 7412) contained trimethylamine (TMA). The identification of TMA in ambient mass spectra was confirmed by laboratory meas…