Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs

S Fuzzi, U Baltensperger, K Carslaw… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased
enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year …

An overview of current issues in the uptake of atmospheric trace gases by aerosols and clouds

CE Kolb, RA Cox, JPD Abbatt… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
A workshop was held in the framework of the ACCENT (Atmospheric Composition Change–
a European Network) Joint Research Programme on" Aerosols" and the Programme on" …

Cloud condensation nuclei in polluted air and biomass burning smoke near the mega-city Guangzhou, China–Part 1: Size-resolved measurements and implications …

D Rose, A Nowak, P Achtert… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosol particles serving as Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) are key
elements of the hydrological cycle and climate. We measured and characterized CCN in …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term cloud condensation nuclei number concentration, particle number size distribution and chemical composition measurements at regionally …

J Schmale, S Henning, S Decesari… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACI) constitute the single largest uncertainty in anthropogenic
radiative forcing. To reduce the uncertainties and gain more confidence in the simulation of …

Global distribution of the effective aerosol hygroscopicity parameter for CCN activation

KJ Pringle, H Tost, A Pozzer, U Pöschl… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
In this study we use the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry (EMAC) model to simulate
global fields of the effective hygroscopicity parameter κ which approximately describes the …

Global cloud condensation nuclei influenced by carbonaceous combustion aerosol

DV Spracklen, KS Carslaw, U Pöschl… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon in carbonaceous combustion aerosol warms the climate by absorbing solar
radiation, meaning reductions in black carbon emissions are often perceived as an attractive …

Droplet nucleation: Physically‐based parameterizations and comparative evaluation

SJ Ghan, H Abdul‐Razzak, A Nenes… - Journal of Advances …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the greatest sources of uncertainty in simulations of climate and climate change is the
influence of aerosols on the optical properties of clouds. The root of this influence is the …

Particle water and pH in the eastern Mediterranean: source variability and implications for nutrient availability

A Bougiatioti, P Nikolaou, I Stavroulas… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Particle water (liquid water content, LWC) and aerosol pH are important parameters of the
aerosol phase, affecting heterogeneous chemistry and bioavailability of nutrients that …

Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei number, with implications for cloud droplet formation

GS Fanourgakis, M Kanakidou, A Nenes… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
A total of 16 global chemistry transport models and general circulation models have
participated in this study; 14 models have been evaluated with regard to their ability to …

Scanning mobility CCN analysis—A method for fast measurements of size-resolved CCN distributions and activation kinetics

RH Moore, A Nenes, J Medina - Aerosol Science and Technology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We present Scanning Mobility CCN Analysis (SMCA) as a novel method for obtaining rapid
measurements of size-resolved cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) distributions and …