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High homogeneous freezing onsets of sulfuric acid aerosol at cirrus temperatures

Schneider, J. 1; Höhler, K. ORCID iD icon 1; Wagner, R. ORCID iD icon 1; Saathoff, H. ORCID iD icon 1; Schnaiter, M. ORCID iD icon 1; Schorr, T. ORCID iD icon 1; Steinke, I.; Benz, S.; Baumgartner, M.; Rolf, C.; Krämer, M.; Leisner, T. ORCID iD icon 1; Möhler, O. 1
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Homogeneous freezing of aqueous solution aerosol particles is an important process for cloud ice formation in the upper troposphere. There the air temperature is low, the ice supersaturation can be high and the concentration of ice-nucleating particles is too low to initiate and dominate cirrus cloud formation by heterogeneous ice nucleation processes. The most common description to quantify homogeneous freezing processes is based on the water activity criterion (WAC) as proposed by Koop et al. (2000). The WAC describes the homogeneous nucleation rate coefficients only as a function of the water activity, which makes this approach well applicable in numerical models. In this study, we investigate the homogeneous freezing behavior of aqueous sulfuric acid aerosol particles by means of a comprehensive collection of laboratory-based homogeneous freezing experiments conducted at the AIDA (Aerosol Interaction and Dynamics in the Atmosphere) cloud simulation chamber, which were conducted as part of 17 measurement campaigns since 2007. The most recent experiments were conducted during October 2020 with special emphasis on temperatures below 200 K. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000139176
Veröffentlicht am 22.10.2021
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-14403-2021
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Zitationen: 17
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Aerosolforschung (IMKAAF)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1680-7316, 1680-7324
KITopen-ID: 1000139176
HGF-Programm 12.11.26 (POF IV, LK 01) Aerosol-Cloud-Climate-Interaction
Erschienen in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Verlag European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Band 21
Heft 18
Seiten 14403-14425
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