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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-601-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-601-2018
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Research article
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03 May 2018
Research article |
| 03 May 2018
| 03 May 2018
Particle shape accounts for instrumental discrepancy in ice core dust size distributions
Marius Folden Simonsen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Llorenç Cremonesi
Department of Physics, University of Milan and National
Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Via Celoria 16, I20133 Milan,
Italy
Giovanni Baccolo
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, I20126 Milan, Italy
Samuel Bosch
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Barbara Delmonte
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, I20126 Milan, Italy
Tobias Erhardt
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Helle Astrid Kjær
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marco Potenza
Department of Physics, University of Milan and National
Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Via Celoria 16, I20133 Milan,
Italy
Anders Svensson
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul Vallelonga
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Short summary
Ice core dust size distributions are more often measured today by an Abakus laser sensor than by the more technically demanding but also very accurate Coulter counter. However, Abakus measurements consistently give larger particle sizes. We show here that this bias exists because the particles are flat and elongated. Correcting for this gives more accurate Abakus measurements. Furthermore, the shape of the particles can be extracted from a combination of Coulter counter and Abakus measurements.
Ice core dust size distributions are more often measured today by an Abakus laser sensor than by...
