Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund
In this study, we modeled the aerosol particle formation along air mass trajectories arriving at the remote Arctic research stations Gruvebadet (67 m a.s.l) and Zeppelin (474 m a.s.l), Ny-Ålesund during May 2018. The aim of this study was to improve our understanding of processes governing secondary...
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In this study, we modeled the aerosol particle formation along air mass trajectories arriving at the remote Arctic research stations Gruvebadet (67 m a.s.l) and Zeppelin (474 m a.s.l), Ny-Ålesund during May 2018. The aim of this study was to improve our understanding of processes governing secondary aerosol formation in remote Arctic marine environments. We run the Lagrangian chemistry transport model ADCHEM, along air mass trajectories generated with FLEXPART v10.4. The air masses arriving at Ny-Ålesund spend most of their time over the open ice-free ocean. In order to capture the secondary aerosol formation from the DMS emitted by phytoplankton on the ocean surface, we implemented a recently developed comprehensive DMS and halogen multi-phase oxidation chemistry scheme, coupled with the widely used Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM). The modeled median particle number size distributions are in close agreement with the observations in the marine influenced boundary layer at near sea surface Gruvebadet site. However, while the model reproduces the accumulation mode particle number concentrations at Zeppelin, it overestimates the Aitken mode particle number concentrations by a factor of ~5.5. We attribute this to the deficiency of the model to capture the complex orographic effects on the boundary layer dynamics at Ny-Ålesund. The model also reproduces the average vertical particle number concentration profiles within the boundary layer (0-600 m a.s.l.) above Gruvebadet, as measured with Condensation Particle Counters (CPCs) on board an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The model successfully reproduces the observed Hoppel minima, often seen in particle number size distributions at Ny-Ålesund. The model also supports the previous experimental findings that ion mediated H2SO4-NH3 nucleation can explain the observed new particle formation in the marine Arctic boundary layer in the vicinity of Ny-Ålesund. Precursors resulting from gas and aqueous phase DMS chemistry contribute to the subsequent growth of the secondary ... |
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Xavier, Carlton Baykara, Metin Wollesen de Jonge, Robin Altstädter, Barbara Clusius, Petri Sebastian Vakkari, Ville Thakur, Roseline Beck, Lisa Becagli, Silvia Severi, Mirko Traversi, Rita Krejci, Radovan Tunved, Peter Mazzola, Mauro Wehner, Birgit Sipilä, Mikko Kulmala, Markku Boy, Michael Pontus, Roldin |
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Xavier, Carlton Baykara, Metin Wollesen de Jonge, Robin Altstädter, Barbara Clusius, Petri Sebastian Vakkari, Ville Thakur, Roseline Beck, Lisa Becagli, Silvia Severi, Mirko Traversi, Rita Krejci, Radovan Tunved, Peter Mazzola, Mauro Wehner, Birgit Sipilä, Mikko Kulmala, Markku Boy, Michael Pontus, Roldin |
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Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund |
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Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund |
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Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund |
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Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund |
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Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund |
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secondary aerosol formation in marine arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at ny-ålesund |
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/347606 2024-01-07T09:40:45+01:00 Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund Xavier, Carlton Baykara, Metin Wollesen de Jonge, Robin Altstädter, Barbara Clusius, Petri Sebastian Vakkari, Ville Thakur, Roseline Beck, Lisa Becagli, Silvia Severi, Mirko Traversi, Rita Krejci, Radovan Tunved, Peter Mazzola, Mauro Wehner, Birgit Sipilä, Mikko Kulmala, Markku Boy, Michael Pontus, Roldin Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) Polar and arctic atmospheric research (PANDA) 2022-08-30T16:59:11Z 21 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/347606 eng eng COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 10.5194/acp-22-10023-2022 Xavier , C , Baykara , M , Wollesen de Jonge , R , Altstädter , B , Clusius , P S , Vakkari , V , Thakur , R , Beck , L , Becagli , S , Severi , M , Traversi , R , Krejci , R , Tunved , P , Mazzola , M , Wehner , B , Sipilä , M , Kulmala , M , Boy , M & Pontus , R 2022 , ' Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments : a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund ' , Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , vol. 22 , no. 15 , pp. 10023–10043 . https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10023-2022 ORCID: /0000-0002-8594-7003/work/118360299 ORCID: /0000-0002-3238-4171/work/118366430 ORCID: /0000-0003-3700-5895/work/118366594 ORCID: /0000-0003-3121-0775/work/126496672 85135610432 17e2936c-daea-48a0-a042-f766a2dc7d7b http://hdl.handle.net/10138/347606 000835747200001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 114 Physical sciences 1171 Geosciences VOLATILE ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS PARTICLE FORMATION TROPOSPHERIC DEGRADATION CLOUD SUPERSATURATIONS DIMETHYL SULFIDE NEUTRAL CLUSTER DMS ION SPECTROMETER Article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:02:37Z In this study, we modeled the aerosol particle formation along air mass trajectories arriving at the remote Arctic research stations Gruvebadet (67 m a.s.l) and Zeppelin (474 m a.s.l), Ny-Ålesund during May 2018. The aim of this study was to improve our understanding of processes governing secondary aerosol formation in remote Arctic marine environments. We run the Lagrangian chemistry transport model ADCHEM, along air mass trajectories generated with FLEXPART v10.4. The air masses arriving at Ny-Ålesund spend most of their time over the open ice-free ocean. In order to capture the secondary aerosol formation from the DMS emitted by phytoplankton on the ocean surface, we implemented a recently developed comprehensive DMS and halogen multi-phase oxidation chemistry scheme, coupled with the widely used Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM). The modeled median particle number size distributions are in close agreement with the observations in the marine influenced boundary layer at near sea surface Gruvebadet site. However, while the model reproduces the accumulation mode particle number concentrations at Zeppelin, it overestimates the Aitken mode particle number concentrations by a factor of ~5.5. We attribute this to the deficiency of the model to capture the complex orographic effects on the boundary layer dynamics at Ny-Ålesund. The model also reproduces the average vertical particle number concentration profiles within the boundary layer (0-600 m a.s.l.) above Gruvebadet, as measured with Condensation Particle Counters (CPCs) on board an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The model successfully reproduces the observed Hoppel minima, often seen in particle number size distributions at Ny-Ålesund. The model also supports the previous experimental findings that ion mediated H2SO4-NH3 nucleation can explain the observed new particle formation in the marine Arctic boundary layer in the vicinity of Ny-Ålesund. Precursors resulting from gas and aqueous phase DMS chemistry contribute to the subsequent growth of the secondary ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Phytoplankton HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Aitken ENVELOPE(-44.516,-44.516,-60.733,-60.733) Arctic Ny-Ålesund Frontiers in Earth Science 10 |