Aerosol optical properties in the southeastern United States in summer - Part 1: Hygroscopic growth

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作者
Brock, Charles A. [1 ]
Wagner, Nicholas L. [1 ,2 ]
Anderson, Bruce E. [3 ]
Attwood, Alexis R. [1 ,2 ,8 ]
Beyersdorf, Andreas [3 ]
Campuzano-Jost, Pedro [2 ,4 ]
Carlton, Annmarie G. [5 ]
Day, Douglas A. [2 ,4 ]
Diskin, Glenn S. [3 ]
Gordon, Timothy D. [1 ,2 ,9 ]
Jimenez, Jose L. [2 ,4 ]
Lack, Daniel A. [1 ,2 ,10 ]
Liao, Jin [1 ,2 ,11 ]
Markovic, Milos Z. [1 ,2 ,12 ]
Middlebrook, Ann M. [1 ]
Ng, Nga L. [6 ,7 ]
Perring, Anne E. [1 ,2 ]
Richardson, Matthews S. [1 ,2 ]
Schwarz, Joshua P. [1 ]
Washenfelder, Rebecca A. [1 ,2 ]
Welti, Andre [1 ,2 ,13 ]
Xu, Lu [7 ]
Ziemba, Luke D. [3 ]
Murphy, Daniel M. [1 ]
机构
[1] NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Cooperat Inst Res Environm Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] NASA, Langley Res Ctr, Hampton, VA 23665 USA
[4] Univ Colorado, Dept Chem & Biochem, Campus Box 215, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[5] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Environm Sci, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
[6] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Earth & Atmospher Sci, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[7] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Chem & Biomol Engn, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[8] Droplet Measurement Technol, Boulder, CO USA
[9] Handix Sci, Boulder, CO USA
[10] TEAC Consulting, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
[11] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[12] Environm Canada, Air Qual Res Div, Toronto, ON, Canada
[13] Leibniz Inst Tropospher Res, Dept Phys, Leipzig, Germany
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; RELATIVE-HUMIDITY; LIGHT-SCATTERING; IN-SITU; SATELLITE-OBSERVATIONS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; SEASONAL-VARIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION;
D O I
10.5194/acp-16-4987-2016
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Aircraft observations of meteorological, trace gas, and aerosol properties were made during May-September 2013 in the southeastern United States (US) under fair-weather, afternoon conditions with well-defined planetary boundary layer structure. Optical extinction at 532aEuro-nm was directly measured at relative humidities (RHs) of aEuro-15, aEuro-70, and aEuro-90aEuro-% and compared with extinction calculated from measurements of aerosol composition and size distribution using the kappa-Kohler approximation for hygroscopic growth. The calculated enhancement in hydrated aerosol extinction with relative humidity, f(RH), calculated by this method agreed well with the observed f(RH) at aEuro-90aEuro-% RH. The dominance of organic aerosol, which comprised 65aEuro-+/- aEuro-10aEuro-% of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < aEuro-1aEuro-A mu m in the planetary boundary layer, resulted in relatively low f(RH) values of 1.43aEuro-+/- aEuro-0.67 at 70aEuro-% RH and 2.28aEuro-+/- aEuro-1.05 at 90aEuro-% RH. The subsaturated kappa-Kohler hygroscopicity parameter kappa for the organic fraction of the aerosol must have been < aEuro-0.10 to be consistent with 75aEuro-% of the observations within uncertainties, with a best estimate of kappa aEuro- = aEuro-0.05. This subsaturated kappa value for the organic aerosol in the southeastern US is broadly consistent with field studies in rural environments. A new, physically based, single-parameter representation was developed that better described f(RH) than did the widely used gamma power-law approximation.
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