Contribution of regional aerosol nucleation to low-level CCN in an Amazonian deep convective environment: results from a regionally nested global model
Abstract × 1080 km regional domain over Amazonia with 4 km resolution. Simulations were performed over several diurnal cycles of convection. Below 2 km altitude in the regional domain, our results show that new particle formation within the regional domain accounts for only between 0.2 % and 3.4 % of all Aitken and accumulation mode aerosol particles, whereas nucleation that occurred outside the domain (in the global model) accounts for between 58 % and 81 %. The remaining aerosol is primary in origin. Above 10 km, the regional-domain nucleation accounts for up to 66 % of Aitken and accumulation mode aerosol, but over several days very few of these particles nucleated above 10 km in the regional domain are transported into the boundary layer within the 1000 km region, and in fact very little air is mixed that far down. Rather, particles transported downwards into the boundary layer originated from outside the regional domain and entered the domain at lower altitudes. Our model results show that CCN entering the Amazonian boundary layer are transported downwards gradually over multiple convective cycles on scales much larger than 1000 km. Therefore, on a 1000 km scale in the model (approximately one-third the size of Amazonia), trace gas emission, new particle formation, transport and CCN production do not form a “closed loop” regulated by the biosphere. Rather, on this scale, long-range transport of aerosol is a much more important factor controlling CCN in the boundary layer.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Englisch
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Contribution of regional aerosol nucleation to low-level CCN in an Amazonian deep convective environment: results from a regionally nested global model ; volume:23 ; number:7 ; year:2023 ; pages:4431-4461 ; extent:31
Atmospheric chemistry and physics ; 23, Heft 7 (2023), 4431-4461 (gesamt 31)
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10.5194/acp-23-4431-2023
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023042005273003283757
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Wang, Xuemei
- Gordon, Hamish
- Grosvenor, Daniel P.
- Andreae, Meinrat O.
- Carslaw, Kenneth S.