On the parametrization of optical particle counter response including instrument-induced broadening of size spectra and a self-consistent evaluation of calibration measurements

Funding

The research leading to these results has received funding from the Helmholtz Association under grant number VH-NG-606 (Helmholtz-Hochschul-Nachwuchsforschergruppe AerCARE) and from the European Research Council under the European Community's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework program/ERC grant agreement number 640458 (A-LIFE). The SALTRACE campaign was mainly funded by the Helmholtz Association, DLR, TROPOS, and LMU. We further acknowledge funding from the LMU Munich's Institutional Strategy LMUexcellent within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, and from the European Union through the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007-2013) under grant agreement number 607905 (Marie Curie Initial Training Network VERTIGO). We also would like to thank Matthias Richter (GRIMM Aerosol Technik GmbH & Co. KG, Ainring, Germany) for fruitful discussions and information about their instruments. We acknowledge the use of the software module providing the corner plots by Foreman-Mackey et al. (2016).