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. 2015 Apr 28;5:9845. doi: 10.1038/srep09845

Table 1. Ambient temperatures, concentrations of major components, stable C and N isotope ratios, and fluorescence spectral parameters of Arctic aerosols.

Components Min Max Mean Median
Ambient temperature, °C −35.0 −2.0 −19.6 −24.0
Aerosol mass, ng m−3 2540 9130 5250 5520
δ13C of TC (δ13CTC), ‰ −26.8 −22.5 −24.5 −24.3
OC, ngC m−3 73.4 387 253 280
WSOC, ngC m−3 40.7 300 186 214
WIOC, ngC m−3 22.0 120 68.0 58.6
WSOC in OC, % 39.9 89.1 69.9 73.4
WIOC in OC, % 10.9 60.1 30.1 26.6
LMW fatty acids (C8–C19), pg m−3 450 1680 929 807
HMW fatty acids (C20–C30), pg m−3 176 937 511 503
Ratios of LMW to HMW fatty acids 1.0 7.0 2.3 1.6
Marine Carbon, ngC m−3 34.5 231 133 115
Continental Carbon, ngC m−3 21.7 510 209 190
Fluorescence intensity, RU L−1 m−3        
peak B (protein-like, ex/em = 270–280/310–320nm) 0.010 0.084 0.035 0.034
peak M (marine humic-like, ex/em = 305–315/410–420nm) 0.013 0.239 0.074 0.059
peak A (terrestrial humic-like, ex/em = 240–250/416–426nm) 0.030 0.889 0.211 0.132
peak C (terrestrial humic-like, ex/em = 335–345/436–446nm) 0.008 0.145 0.050 0.043
HIX (ex = 255 nm, 436–480/300–344 nm) 0.69 5.24 2.93 3.12
FI (ex = 370, 470/520 nm) 1.19 1.58 1.47 1.48
BIX (ex = 310 nm, 380/430 nm) 0.63 0.96 0.72 0.70