Frequent new particle formation at remote sites in the subboreal forest of North America

Abstract - 3 - 3. The reasons for this difference could not be conclusively resolved with the available data; they may include air mass origins, preexisting aerosols, and the density and type of forest cover in the surrounding regions. In contrast to observations in other temperate and boreal environments, we found that NPF at our sites occurred at nighttime just as frequently as during daytime. Together with the lack of identifiable sources of sulfuric acid precursor species in the fetch region of our sites, this suggests that nucleation of extremely low volatility organics was the predominant NPF mechanism. Our results indicate that extended measurement campaigns with a more comprehensive set of instrumentation to investigate the role of NPF in the remote forest regions of North America are essential for a deeper scientific understanding of this important process and its role in the global aerosol budget.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Frequent new particle formation at remote sites in the subboreal forest of North America ; volume:22 ; number:4 ; year:2022 ; pages:2487-2505 ; extent:19
Atmospheric chemistry and physics ; 22, Heft 4 (2022), 2487-2505 (gesamt 19)

Creator
Andreae, Meinrat O.
Andreae, Tracey W.
Ditas, Florian
Pöhlker, Christopher

DOI
10.5194/acp-22-2487-2022
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022030304374750586914
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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