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@ARTICLE{Marno:890286,
author = {Marno, Daniel and Ernest, Cheryl and Hens, Korbinian and
Javed, Umar and Klimach, Thomas and Martinez, Monica and
Rudolf, Markus and Lelieveld, Jos and Harder, Hartwig},
title = {{C}alibration of an airborne
${HO}\<sub\>\<i\>x\</i\>\</sub\>$ instrument using the {A}ll
{P}ressure {A}ltitude-based {C}alibrator for
${HO}\<sub\>\<i\>x\</i\>\</sub\>$ {E}xperimentation
({APACHE})},
journal = {Atmospheric measurement techniques},
volume = {13},
number = {5},
issn = {1867-8548},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00867},
pages = {2711 - 2731},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is a widely used technique
for both laboratory-based and ambient atmospheric chemistry
measurements. However, LIF instruments require calibrations
in order to translate instrument response into
concentrations of chemical species. Calibration of LIF
instruments measuring OH and HO2 (HOx) typically involves
the photolysis of water vapor by 184.9 nm light, thereby
producing quantitative amounts of OH and HO2. For
ground-based HOx instruments, this method of calibration is
done at one pressure (typically ambient pressure) at the
instrument inlet. However, airborne HOx instruments can
experience varying cell pressures, internal residence times,
temperatures, and humidity during flight. Therefore,
replication of such variances when calibrating in the lab is
essential to acquire the appropriate sensitivities. This
requirement resulted in the development of the APACHE (All
Pressure Altitude-based Calibrator for HOx Experimentation)
chamber to characterize the sensitivity of the airborne
LIF-FAGE (fluorescence assay by gas expansion) HOx
instrument, HORUS, which took part in an intensive airborne
campaign, OMO-Asia 2015. It utilizes photolysis of water
vapor but has the additional ability to alter the pressure
at the nozzle of the HORUS instrument. With APACHE, the
HORUS instrument sensitivity towards OH
(26.1–7.8 cts s−1 pptv−1 mW−1, $±22.6 \%$
1σ; cts stands for counts by the detector) and HO2
(21.2–8.1 cts s−1 pptv−1 mW−1, $±22.1 \%$
1σ) was characterized to the external pressure range at the
instrument nozzle of 227–900 mbar. Measurements
supported by a computational fluid dynamics model, COMSOL
Multiphysics, revealed that, for all pressures explored in
this study, APACHE is capable of initializing a homogenous
flow and maintaining near-uniform flow speeds across the
internal cross section of the chamber. This reduces the
uncertainty regarding average exposure times across the
mercury (Hg) UV ring lamp. Two different actinometrical
approaches characterized the APACHE UV ring lamp flux as
6.37×1014(±1.3×1014) photons cm−2 s−1. One
approach used the HORUS instrument as a transfer standard in
conjunction with a calibrated on-ground calibration system
traceable to NIST standards, which characterized the UV ring
lamp flux to be 6.9(±1.1)×1014 photons cm−2 s−1.
The second approach involved measuring ozone production by
the UV ring lamp using an ANSYCO O3 41 M ozone monitor,
which characterized the UV ring lamp flux to be
6.11(±0.8)×1014 photons cm−2 s−1. Data presented
in this study are the first direct calibrations of an
airborne HOx instrument, performed in a controlled
environment in the lab using APACHE.},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {243 - Tropospheric trace substances and their
transformation processes (POF3-243)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-243},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000537699800002},
doi = {10.5194/amt-13-2711-2020},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890286},
}