Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Non-Soluble Carbon in Aerosol Particles from High Alpine Snow (Mt. Sonnblich, Austria)
Author
Weissenbök, Roland H.Currie, Lloyd A.
Gröllert, Christina
Kutschera, Walter
Marolf, Julie
Priller, Alfred
Puxbaum, Hans
Rom, Werner
Steier, Peter
Issue Date
2000-01-01Keywords
solubilityMount Sonnblich
snow
aerosols
atmospheric precipitation
accelerator mass spectra
C 14 C 12
sampling
mass spectra
spectra
Austria
isotope ratios
Central Europe
mass spectroscopy
spectroscopy
Europe
sample preparation
C 14
carbon
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
C 13 C 12
stable isotopes
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Weissenbök, R. H., Currie, L. A., Gröllert, C., Kutschera, W., Marolf, J., Priller, A., ... & Steier, P. (2000). Accelerator mass spectrometry analysis of non-soluble carbon in aerosol particles from high alpine snow (Mt. Sonnblich, Austria). Radiocarbon, 42(2), 285-294.Journal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
With an elaborate accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique radiocarbon measurements have been performed with aerosol carbon filtered from high alpine snow samples gathered consecutively at the high-altitude research station Sonnblick (3106 m, Eastern Alps, Austria) during a snow storm in April 1997. The concentration of the water-insoluble carbonaceous material in the molten snow was on the average 310 micrograms C/L and the total sample amounts for analysis were in the range of 35 micrograms to 60 micrograms C. Using a special background correction procedure tested on similar amounts of an urban particulate standard sample the accuracy of the corrected and normalized 14C/12C isotopic ratios of the snow aerosol samples was in the order of 4% to 14% of the measured ratios. The water-insoluble carbonaceous material of five samples from Mt. Sonnblick exhibited a weighted mean of 74 pMC (percent Modern Carbon) with a range of 64 pMC to 88 pMC. Thus, it appears that about 64% of non-soluble carbon in high alpine snow from Sonnblick was of biogenic origin. The temporal variations of the 14C/12C isotopic ratios of the snow aerosol samples were statistically significant, suggesting alterations in the contribution of specific aerosol sources.Type
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enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200059099