Subarctic atmospheric aerosol composition: 3. Measured and modeled properties of cloud condensation nuclei

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Kammermann, Lukas, Gysel, Martin, Weingartner, Ernest, Herich, Hanna, Cziczo, Daniel J., Holst, Thomas, Svenningsson, Birgitta, Arneth, Almut, Baltensperger, Urs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Arctic; Stordalen; Northern Sweden; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1568102; https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012447

Aerosol particles can modify cloud properties by acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Predicting CCN properties is still a challenge and not properly incorporated in current climate models. Atmospheric particle number size distributions, hygroscopic growth factors, and polydisperse CCN number...