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Flesch M, Christiansen AE, Burns AM, Ghate VP, Carlton AG. Ambient Aerosol Is Physically Larger on Cloudy Days in Bondville, Illinois. ACS EARTH & SPACE CHEMISTRY 2022; 6:2910-2918. [PMID: 36561197 PMCID: PMC9761781 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Particle chemical composition affects aerosol optical and physical properties in ways important for the fate, transport, and impact of atmospheric particulate matter. For example, hygroscopic constituents take up water to increase the physical size of a particle, which can alter the extinction properties and atmospheric lifetime. At the collocated AERosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) and Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network monitoring stations in rural Bondville, Illinois, we employ a novel cloudiness determination method to compare measured aerosol physicochemical properties on predominantly cloudy and clear sky days from 2010 to 2019. On cloudy days, aerosol optical depth (AOD) is significantly higher than on clear sky days in all seasons. Measured Ångström exponents are significantly smaller on cloudy days, indicating physically larger average particle size for the sampled populations in all seasons except winter. Mass concentrations of fine particulate matter that include estimates of aerosol liquid water (ALW) are higher on cloudy days in all seasons but winter. More ALW on cloudy days is consistent with larger particle sizes inferred from Ångström exponent measurements. Aerosol chemical composition that affects hygroscopicity plays a determining impact on cloudy versus clear sky differences in AOD, Ångström exponents, and ALW. This work highlights the need for simultaneous collocated, high-time-resolution measurements of both aerosol chemical and physical properties, in particular at cloudy times when quantitative understanding of tropospheric composition is most uncertain.
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Zheng G, Sedlacek AJ, Aiken AC, Feng Y, Watson TB, Raveh-Rubin S, Uin J, Lewis ER, Wang J. Long-range transported North American wildfire aerosols observed in marine boundary layer of eastern North Atlantic. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2020; 139:105680. [PMID: 32272293 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Wildfire is a major source of biomass burning aerosols, which greatly impact Earth climate. Tree species in North America (NA) boreal forests can support high-intensity crown fires, resulting in elevated injection height and longer lifetime (on the order of months) of the wildfire aerosols. Given the long lifetime, the properties of aged NA wildfire aerosols are required to understand and quantify their effects on radiation and climate. Here we present comprehensive characterization of climatically relevant properties, including optical properties and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activities of aged NA wildfire aerosols, emitted from the record-breaking Canadian wildfires in August 2017. Despite the extreme injection height of ~12 km, some of the wildfire plumes descended into the marine boundary layer in the eastern North Atlantic over a period of ~2 weeks, owing to the dry intrusions behind mid-latitude cyclones. The aged wildfire aerosols have high single scattering albedos at 529 nm (ω529; 0.92-0.95) while low absorption Ångström exponents (Åabs) at 464 nm/648 nm (0.7-0.9). In comparison, Åabs of fresh/slightly aged ones are typically 1.4-3.5. This low Åabs indicates a nearly complete loss of brown carbon, likely due to bleaching and/or evaporation, during the long-range transport. The nearly complete loss suggests that on global average, direct radiative forcing of BrC may be minor. Combining Mie calculations and the measured aerosol hygroscopicity, volatility and size distributions, we show that the high ω529 and low Åabs values are best explained by an external mixture of non-absorbing organic particles and absorbing particles of large BC cores (>~110 nm diameter) with thick non-absorbing coatings. The accelerated descent of the wildfire plume also led to strong increase of CCN concentration at the supersaturation levels representative of marine low clouds. The hygroscopicity parameter, κCCN, of the aged wildfire aerosols varies from 0.2 to 0.4, substantially lower than that of background marine boundary layer aerosols. However, the high fraction of particles with large diameter (i.e., within accumulation size ranges, ~100-250 nm) compensates for the low values of κ, and as a result, the aged NA wildfire aerosols contribute more efficiently to CCN population. These results provide direct evidence that the long-range transported NA wildfires can strongly influence CCN concentration in remote marine boundary layer, therefore the radiative properties of marine low clouds. Given the expected increases of NA wildfire intensity and frequency and regular occurrence of dry intrusion following mid-latitude cyclones, the influence of NA wildfire aerosols on CCN and clouds in remote marine environment need to be further examined.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guangjie Zheng
- Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA; Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Earth System Observations, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA; Environmental and Climate Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.
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Eom HJ, Gupta D, Li X, Jung HJ, Kim H, Ro CU. Influence of Collecting Substrates on the Characterization of Hygroscopic Properties of Inorganic Aerosol Particles. Anal Chem 2014; 86:2648-56. [DOI: 10.1021/ac4042075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Hyo-Jin Eom
- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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Matsui H, Koike M, Kondo Y, Takegawa N, Fast JD, Pöschl U, Garland RM, Andreae MO, Wiedensohler A, Sugimoto N, Zhu T. Spatial and temporal variations of aerosols around Beijing in summer 2006: 2. Local and column aerosol optical properties. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd013895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Clarke A, Kapustin V. Hemispheric Aerosol Vertical Profiles: Anthropogenic Impacts on Optical Depth and Cloud Nuclei. Science 2010; 329:1488-92. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1188838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Antony Clarke
- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Drury E, Jacob DJ, Spurr RJD, Wang J, Shinozuka Y, Anderson BE, Clarke AD, Dibb J, McNaughton C, Weber R. Synthesis of satellite (MODIS), aircraft (ICARTT), and surface (IMPROVE, EPA-AQS, AERONET) aerosol observations over eastern North America to improve MODIS aerosol retrievals and constrain surface aerosol concentrations and sources. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Ganguly D, Ginoux P, Ramaswamy V, Dubovik O, Welton J, Reid EA, Holben BN. Inferring the composition and concentration of aerosols by combining AERONET and MPLNET data: Comparison with other measurements and utilization to evaluate GCM output. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd011895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Thornhill KL, Chen G, Dibb J, Jordan CE, Omar A, Winstead EL, Schuster G, Clarke A, McNaughton C, Scheuer E, Blake D, Sachse G, Huey LG, Singh HB, Anderson BE. The impact of local sources and long-range transport on aerosol properties over the northeast U.S. region during INTEX-NA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd008666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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