Seasonal Trends of Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Mixing State in Clean Marine and Polluted Continental Air Masses Over the Northeast Atlantic

Xu, Wei; Ovadnevaitė, Jurgita; Fossum, Kirsten N.; Lin, Chunshui; Huang, Ru‐Jin; O’Dowd, Colin; Čeburnis, Darius

doi:10.1029/2020jd033851

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“…Although it is also one of the key factors affecting aerosol activation to become CCN, the particle mixing state will cause differences in the concentration of CCN ( N CCN ) prediction due to the changes in component (Gaston et al., 2018; Hughes et al., 2018; Ma et al., 2017; Miao et al., 2015; Stevens & Dastoor, 2019; Vu et al., 2019; Xu, Ovadnevaite, et al., 2021; Z. Zhang et al., 2022). Vu et al.…”

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Particle Number Size Distribution of Wintertime Alpine Aerosols and Their Activation as Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Guanzhong Plain, Northwest China

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The particle number size distribution (PNSD) and hygroscopicity on alpine sites can directly reflect the interaction between aerosol and cloud in the free troposphere, and narrow the errors caused by extrapolation from the ground observation. In this study, PNSD and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentration (N CCN ) were observed at the summit of Mt. Hua from December 16, 2020, to January 23, 2021. The result showed that the modes and hygroscopicity parameters (κ) of aerosols were significantly affected by the height and direction of the originated air masses. The particle in nucleation mode from new particle formation erupted frequently in 13:00-18:00 local time due to the intense photochemistry and had a potential contribution to CCN through the process of the growth with the ratio of 0.83 nm•h −1 , which was affected by air masses, meteorological conditions, and gaseous pollutants. Subsequently, the hygroscopicity κ varied from 0.22 to 0.13 with the supersaturation from 0.2% to 1.0% as more components that were difficult to dissolve or had low hygroscopicity. The comprehensive analysis of PNSD and hygroscopicity showed that smaller k from two-parameter power model corresponded to particles with higher hygroscopicity or larger diameter, while larger k matched to the hydrophobic or ultrafine particles. In addition, the interactions between aerosol and cloud were estimated more accurately and the uncertainty of indirect effect was shrunk. Overall, we provided insights into PNSD and hygroscopicity of alpine aerosol particles by direct observation on Mt. Hua, which may be important to other elevated regions as well.

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