| Summary: | 2 pages, figures Each cubic centimetre of the atmosphere of planet Earth contains many aerosol particles ranging from some nanometres to hundreds of micrometers in diameter. Atmospheric aerosol has effects on heterogeneous and multiphase chemistry, solar radiation transfer and cloud processes. Major gaps include the complexity and importance of marine ecosystems as a source of precursor emissions for aerosol, and the heterogeneous chemical processes of the coexistence of major anthropogenic and natural sources causing elevated air pollution in coastal urban areas. This talk aims to give some insights to a broader audience on (1) aerosol sources and measurements, on aerosol atmospheric processes in the urban areas of (2) London and (3) Barcelona, (4) on the variation of the aerosol mixing state of Saharan dust and biological particles with atmospheric transport in the Tropical Ocean, (5) on the occurrence of aerosol nucleation events in Polar and Arctic air masses and (6) on the identification of the spontaneous creation of new nanometer-sized particles in the open ocean marine atmosphere in the Antarctic region. In summary, this talk -by using the interdisciplinary nature of different research fields -aims to present a range of atmospheric processes being studied at the ICM-CSIC Peer Reviewed
|
|---|