Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 11 (2013): 62-78, doi:10.4319/lom.2013.11.62.
Description:
Atmospheric deposition of trace elements and isotopes (TEI) is an important source of trace metals to the open ocean, impacting TEI budgets and distributions, stimulating oceanic primary productivity, and influencing biological community structure and function. Thus, accurate sampling of aerosol TEIs is a vital component of ongoing GEOTRACES cruises, and standardized aerosol TEI sampling and analysis procedures allow the comparison of data from different sites and investigators. Here, we report the results of an aerosol analysis intercalibration study by seventeen laboratories for select GEOTRACES-relevant aerosol species (Al, Fe, Ti, V, Zn, Pb, Hg, NO3 , and SO42 ) for samples collected in September 2008. The collection equipment and filter substrates are appropriate for the GEOTRACES program, as evidenced by low blanks and detection limits relative to analyte concentrations. Analysis of bulk aerosol sample replicates were in better agreement when the processing protocol was constrained (± 9% RSD or better on replicate analyses by a single lab, n = 7) than when it was not (generally 20% RSD or worse among laboratories using different methodologies), suggesting that the observed variability was mainly due to methodological differences rather than sample heterogeneity. Much greater variability was observed for fractional solubility of aerosol trace elements and major anions, due to differing extraction methods. Accuracy is difficult to establish without an SRM representative of aerosols, and we are developing an SRM for this purpose. Based on these findings, we provide recommendations for the GEOTRACES program to establish consistent and reliable procedures for the collection and analysis of aerosol samples.
Description:
This work was partially funded by the following
sources: US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OCE-
0752832 (PLM, WML, and AM), National Science Council Taiwan
grant 100-2628-M-001-008-MY4 (SCH), US NSF grant
OCE-1137836 (AMA-I), United Kingdom Natural Environmental
Research Council (NERC) grant NE/H00548X/1 (AR
Baker), Australian Government Cooperative Research Centres
Programme (AR Bowie), US NSF grant OCE-0824304 (CSB and
Adina Paytan), US NSF grants OCE-0825068 and OCE-
0728750 (SG and Robert Mason), US NSF grant OCE-0961038
(MGH), US NSF grant OCE-0752609 (MH and Christopher
Measures), US NSF grant ATM-0839851 (AMJ), US NSF grant
OCE-1031371 (CM), UK NERC grant NE/C001931/1 (MDP and
Eric Achterberg), US NSF grant OCE-1132515 (GS and Carl
Lamborg), US NSF grant OCE-0851462 (AV and Thomas
Church), and US NSF grant OCE-0623189 (LMZ). This paper is
part of the Intercalibration in Chemical Oceanography special
issue of L&O Methods that was supported by funding from the
US National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography
Program (grant OCE-0927285 to Gregory Cutter).
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Article
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application/pdf
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