Relating cloud condensation nuclei activity and oxidation level of α-pinene secondary organic aerosols

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Frosch, Mia
Bilde, Merete
DeCarlo, Peter F.
Jurányi, Zsófia
Tritscher, Torsten
Dommen, Josef
Donahue, Neil M.
Baltensperger, Urs
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30.11.2011
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01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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116
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D22
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Wiley
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Hoboken
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Zusammenfassung
During a series of smog chamber experiments, the effects of chemical and photochemical aging on the ability of organic aerosols generated from ozonolysis of α-pinene to act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) were investigated. In particular, the study focused on the relation between oxygenation and the CCN-derived single hygroscopicity parameter κ for different experimental conditions: varying precursor concentrations (10–40 ppb), different OH sources (photolysis of HONO either with or without the addition of NO or ozonolysis of tetramethylethylene), and exposure to light. Oxygenation was described by the contribution of the aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) mass fragment m/z 44 to the total organic signal (f44) and the oxygen to carbon molar ratio (O/C), likewise determined with AMS. CCN activity, described by the hygroscopicity parameter κ, was determined with a CCN counter. It was found that f44 increases with decreasing precursor concentration and with chemical aging, whereas neither of these affects CCN activity. Overall, κ is largely independent of O/C in the range 0.3 < O/C < 0.6 (0.07 < f44 < 0.12), although an empirical unweighted least squares fit was determined: κ = (0.071 ± 0.02) · (O/C) + (0.0785 ± 0.009) for particles with diameter in the range 59–200 nm. Growth kinetics of activating secondary organic aerosols were found to be comparable to those of ammonium sulfate and were not influenced by chemical aging.
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550 - Geowissenschaften
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2169-8996
2169-897X
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Englisch
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Nein
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Veröffentlicht
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Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
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Closed
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FROSCH, Mia, Merete BILDE, Peter F. DECARLO, Zsófia JURÁNYI, Torsten TRITSCHER, Josef DOMMEN, Neil M. DONAHUE, Martin GYSEL, Ernest WEINGARTNER und Urs BALTENSPERGER, 2011. Relating cloud condensation nuclei activity and oxidation level of α-pinene secondary organic aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 30 November 2011. Bd. 116, Nr. D22. DOI 10.1029/2011jd016401. Verfügbar unter: https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/46599