Aerosol Hygroscopic Properties

Aerosol Hygroscopic Properties
Author: Danielle El Hajj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

Aerosols play vital roles in energy balance of the Earth and also have a significant impact on human health. The last assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that the uncertainty in the total radiative forcing is mainly dominated by the high uncertainty in the aerosol radiative forcing. This is mainly caused by the poorly understood and quantified aerosol effects. Indeed, high relative humidity (RH), promotes water uptake by atmospheric aerosol particles, which modifies their size, morphology and chemical composition and therefore their optical properties. In-situ measurements of aerosols properties (scattering and absorption coefficients, size distribution) are usually performed at dry conditions (RH

Investigation of Hygroscopic and Morphological Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols

Investigation of Hygroscopic and Morphological Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols
Author: Laura B. Cook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011
Genre: Aerosols
ISBN:

Examines the hygroscopic and morphological nature of various substances through the use of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM). The hygroscopic growth and changes in morphology for pure-component aerosols were studied for particles size. Hygroscopic growth was observed through changes in relative humidity (RH) and hygroscopic growth curves were created. the hygroscopic growth of multi-component aerosol mixtures was studied using Hygroscopic Tandem Differential Mobility Analysis (HTDMA) . The size distribution for an aerosol stream was determined before and after the stream was subjected to an increase in relative humidity.

The Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990

The Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990
Author: Sandro Fuzzi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401103135

The eleven papers presented in this issue are intended to provide a comprehen sive description of the cloud systems studied during the Kleiner Feldberg experi ment. The first paper provides a general overview of the experiment and a summa ry of the main accomplishments. The following three papers then describe the cloud systems from the meteorological, microphysical and chemical perspectives. Another four papers address more specifically the issues of incorporation of aerosol particles and trace gases within cloud droplets. A synthesis of the Kleiner Feldberg cloud properties and a comparison with experimental data is then provided by a paper which models the airflow and cloud mycrophysics and chemistry for selected cloud episodes during the experiment. Deposition of trace substances via cloud interception with the vegetation is the subject of the next paper, which integrates experimental data in a deposition resistance model. A technical paper at the end of the issue reports on a newly developed holographic technique to measure cloud droplet size distribution, which was tested for the first time during this experiment. The collaborative nature of the work accomplished within GCE is emphasized by the large authorship of most papers presented in this issue. This should not be regarded with surprise, but rather as an indication of the interdisciplinary efforts of the GCE scientific community for the accomplishment of this study. SANDRO FUZZI Coordinator, EUROTRAC sub-project GCE Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 19: 3-35, 1994. 3 © 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990.

Physical and Chemical Properties of Aerosols

Physical and Chemical Properties of Aerosols
Author: Ian Colbeck
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

An aerosol is a suspension of fine particles in a gas, usually air, and is generally taken to include both solid and liquid particles with dimensions ranging from a few nanometres up to around 100 micrometres in diameter. Aerosol sicence is the study of the physics and chemistry of aerosol behaviour and this includes techniques of generating particles of nanometre and micrometre dimensions: size classification and measurement, transport and deposition properties: chemical properties of aerosols in the atmosphere and in industry, as well as health effects from inhalation and industrial gas cleaning technology. Aerosols have important commercial implications, e.g. pressure-packaged `aerosol' products, agricultural sprays, atmospheric visibility and high technology materials and knowledge of aerosol properties is important in a wide range of disciplines, including industrial hygiene, air pollution, medicine, agriculture, meteorology and geochemistry. Written by an international team of contributors, this book forms a timely, concise and accessible overview of aerosol science and technology. Chemists, technologists and engineers new to aerosol science will find this book an essential companion in their studies of the subject. Those more familiar with aerosols will use it as an essential source of reference.