Decommissioned
Principle of the Measurement
Chemical ionization of organic acids by transfer with acetate ions
Detection using a quadrupole mass spectrometer
Species Measured
Time Response / Detection Limit
1-10 seconds / 10-100 pptv
Field Projects
Key Publications
P. Veres, J.M. Roberts, C. Warneke, D. Welsh-Bon, M. Zahniser, S. Herndon, R. Fall and J. de Gouw, Development of negative-ion proton-transfer chemical-ionization mass spectrometry (NI-PT-CIMS) for the measurement of gas-phase organic acids in the atmosphere, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2008.04.032, 2008.