Relative Humidity Dependence of Growth Factor and Real Refractive Index for Sea Salt/Malonic Acid Internally Mixed Aerosols

Abstract

Sea salt aerosols (SSAs) are one of the most abundant aerosol-type in the atmosphere and play an important role in climate change with the global direct radiative effect ranging from −0.31 to −1.1 W•m −2 (Ayash et al., 2008). Sea salts are commonly found to mix with complex organic components, including fatty acids, biogenic secondary organic aerosols, alkanes, and sugars, which come from continental or oceanic organic gaseous precursors and aerosols (