Auflistung nach Autor:in "Schnaiter, Martin"

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Absorption of light by soot particles: determination of the absorption coefficient by means of aethalometers
(Elsevier, 10/2003) Weingartner, Ernest; Saathoff, Harald; Schnaiter, Martin; Streit, Niklaus; Bitnar, B.; Baltensperger, Urs
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Carbon mass determinations during the AIDA soot aerosol campaign 1999
(Elsevier, 10/2003) Saathoff, Harald; Naumann, Karl-Heinz; Schnaiter, Martin; Schöck, Werner; Weingartner, Ernest; Baltensperger, Urs; Krämer, Lutz; Bozoki, Zoltan; Pöschl, Ulrich; Niessner, Reinhard; Schurath, Ulrich
During the soot aerosol campaign particle carbon mass concentrations of Diesel soot, spark generated “Palas” soot, external and internal mixtures of Diesel soot with (NH4)2SO4, and particles coated with secondary organic aerosol material were determined by several different methods. Two methods were based on thermochemical filter analysis with coulometric and NDIR detection of evolved CO2 (total carbon, TC and elemental carbon, EC) and four methods employed optical techniques: aethalometry (black carbon, BC), photoacoustic soot detection (BC), photoelectron emission, and extinction measurement at 473 nm. Furthermore, β-attenuation (total particulate mass), FTIR spectroscopy (sulphate), and COSIMA model calculations were used to determine particle mass concentrations. The general agreement between most methods was good although some methods did not reach their usual performance. TC determined by coulometric filter analysis showed good correlations with optical extinction, photoacoustic BC signal, and photoelectron emission data. However, the evolution of the photoelectron emission signal correlated with changes in accessible surface area rather than mass concentration and was very sensitive to surface conditions. The BC content as measured by the aethalometers approximately equal to less than 70% of the EC content for Diesel soot and amounts to less than 25% of the EC content of “Palas” soot.
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Coating of soot and (NH4)2SO4 particles by ozonolysis products of α-pinene
(Elsevier, 10/2003) Saathoff, Harald; Naumann, Karl-Heinz; Schnaiter, Martin; Schöck, Werner; Möhler, Ottmar; Schurath, Ulrich; Weingartner, Ernest; Gysel, Martin; Baltensperger, Urs
The ozonolysis of α-pinene in a large aerosol chamber was used to generate secondary organic aerosol (SOA) mass by homogeneous nucleation, or by heterogeneous nucleation, either on soot, or on (NH4)2SO4 seed aerosols. The rate of the α-pinene + ozone reaction and the aerosol yield of ∼19% are in good agreement with literature data. The organic coating of soot particles leads to a compaction of the fractal agglomerates expressed by an increase in fractal dimension from 1.9 to 2.1 for Diesel soot, and from 2.0 to 2.3 for spark generated “Palas” soot. The dielectric coating of the soot particles with SOA layers between 2 to 11 nm gives rise to a substantial enhancement of their single scattering albedo, from about 0.2 to 0.5, and increases the effective absorption coefficients of both soot types by ca. 30%. The coating of both soot types increases the hygroscopic growth factors (HGF) to values close below the HGF measured for pure SOA material d/d0∼1:12 at 90% RH.
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Ice residual properties in mixed‐phase clouds at the high‐alpine Jungfraujoch site
(Wiley, 2016) Kupiszewski, Piotr; Zanatta, Marco; Mertes, Stephan; Vochezer, Paul; Lloyd, Gary; Schneider, Johannes; Schenk, Ludwig; Schnaiter, Martin; Baltensperger, Urs; Weingartner, Ernest; Gysel, Martin
Ice residual (IR) and total aerosol properties were measured in mixed‐phase clouds (MPCs) at the high‐alpine Jungfraujoch research station. Black carbon (BC) content and coating thickness of BC‐containing particles were determined using single‐particle soot photometers. The ice activated fraction (IAF), derived from a comparison of IR and total aerosol particle size distributions, showed an enrichment of large particles in the IR, with an increase in the IAF from values on the order of 10−4to 10 for 100 nm (diameter) particles to 0.2 to 0.3 for 1 μm (diameter) particles. Nonetheless, due to the high number fraction of submicrometer particles with respect to total particle number, IR size distributions were still dominated by the submicrometer aerosol. A comparison of simultaneously measured number size distributions of BC‐free and BC‐containing IR and total aerosol particles showed depletion of BC by number in the IR, suggesting that BC does not play a significant role in ice nucleation in MPCs at the Jungfraujoch. The potential anthropogenic climate impact of BC via the glaciation effect in MPCs is therefore likely to be negligible at this site and in environments with similar meteorological conditions and a similar aerosol population. The IAF of the BC‐containing particles also increased with total particle size, in a similar manner as for the BC‐free particles, but on a level 1 order of magnitude lower. Furthermore, BC‐containing IR were found to have a thicker coating than the BC‐containing total aerosol, suggesting the importance of atmospheric aging for ice nucleation.
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The ice selective inlet. a novel technique for exclusive extraction of pristine ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds
(Copernicus, 2015) Kupiszewski, Piotr; Weingartner, Ernest; Vochezer, Paul; Schnaiter, Martin; Bigi, Alessandro; Gysel, Martin; Rosati, Bernadette; Toprak, Emre; Mertes, Stephan; Baltensperger, Urs
Climate predictions are affected by high uncertainties partially due to an insufficient knowledge of aerosol–cloud interactions. One of the poorly understood processes is formation of mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) via heterogeneous ice nucleation. Field measurements of the atmospheric ice phase in MPCs are challenging due to the presence of much more numerous liquid droplets. The Ice Selective Inlet (ISI), presented in this paper, is a novel inlet designed to selectively sample pristine ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds and extract the ice residual particles contained within the crystals for physical and chemical characterization. Using a modular setup composed of a cyclone impactor, droplet evaporation unit and pumped counterflow virtual impactor (PCVI), the ISI segregates particles based on their inertia and phase, exclusively extracting small ice particles between 5 and 20 μm in diameter. The setup also includes optical particle spectrometers for analysis of the number size distribution and shape of the sampled hydrometeors. The novelty of the ISI is a droplet evaporation unit, which separates liquid droplets and ice crystals in the airborne state, thus avoiding physical impaction of the hydrometeors and limiting potential artefacts. The design and validation of the droplet evaporation unit is based on modelling studies of droplet evaporation rates and computational fluid dynamics simulations of gas and particle flows through the unit. Prior to deployment in the field, an inter-comparison of the optical particle size spectrometers and a characterization of the transmission efficiency of the PCVI was conducted in the laboratory. The ISI was subsequently deployed during the Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment (CLACE) 2013 and 2014 – two extensive international field campaigns encompassing comprehensive measurements of cloud microphysics, as well as bulk aerosol, ice residual and ice nuclei properties. The campaigns provided an important opportunity for a proof of concept of the inlet design. In this work we present the setup of the ISI, including the modelling and laboratory characterization of its components, as well as field measurements demonstrating the ISI performance and validating the working principle of the inlet. Finally, measurements of biological aerosol during a Saharan dust event (SDE) are presented, showing a first indication of enrichment of bio-material in sub-2 μm ice residuals.
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