Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

M Shrivastava, CD Cappa, J Fan… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol
concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial conditions and …

Aerosol mixing state: Measurements, modeling, and impacts

N Riemer, AP Ault, M West, RL Craig… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric aerosols are complex mixtures of different chemical species, and individual
particles exist in many different shapes and morphologies. Together, these characteristics …

The role of organic aerosol in atmospheric ice nucleation: A review

DA Knopf, PA Alpert, B Wang - ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

D Liu, C He, JP Schwarz, X Wang - NPJ climate and atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing
organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating …

Measuring the surface tension of atmospheric particles and relevant mixtures to better understand key atmospheric processes

M El Haber, V Gérard, J Kleinheins… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Aerosol and aqueous particles are ubiquitous in Earth's atmosphere and play key roles in
geochemical processes such as natural chemical cycles, cloud and fog formation, air …

Surface tension prevails over solute effect in organic-influenced cloud droplet activation

J Ovadnevaite, A Zuend, A Laaksonen, KJ Sanchez… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The spontaneous growth of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) into cloud droplets under
supersaturated water vapour conditions is described by classic Köhler theory,. This …

Revising the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt particles

P Zieger, O Väisänen, JC Corbin, DG Partridge… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Sea spray is one of the largest natural aerosol sources and plays an important role in the
Earth's radiative budget. These particles are inherently hygroscopic, that is, they take-up …

Biogenic secondary organic aerosols: A review on formation mechanism, analytical challenges and environmental impacts

M Mahilang, MK Deb, S Pervez - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The review initiates with current state of information on the atmospheric reaction mechanism
of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and its fate in the atmosphere. The plants …

Imaging of pH distribution inside individual microdroplet by stimulated Raman microscopy

K Gong, J Ao, K Li, L Liu, Y Liu, G Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Aerosol microdroplets as microreactors for many important atmospheric reactions are
ubiquitous in the atmosphere. pH largely regulates the chemical processes within them; …

The surface tension of surfactant-containing, finite volume droplets

BR Bzdek, JP Reid, J Malila… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Surface tension influences the fraction of atmospheric particles that become cloud droplets.
Although surfactants are an important component of aerosol mass, the surface tension of …