Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture Anatoli Bogdan

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Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture Anatoli Bogdan Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck Austria and Department of Physics, University of Helsinki Finland. Contents Introduction - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture

Anatoli Bogdan

Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck Austria

andDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki

Finland

ContentsIntroduction - observational data of UT moisture - water activity criterion

Approaches for explanation of large UT moisture - cubic ice hypothesis - organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol - glassy organic (citric acid) aerosol - mixed-phase cirrus cloud particles

Observations of UT moisture

The warming is large at the upper troposphere in the tropics and the lower troposphere in the northern high latitude. http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Dep/cl/cl4/yosoku/yosoku-en.htm

Water activity criterion

Maximum RHi of aqueous aerosol droplets which is allowed by a water activity criterion (WAC).

Equilibrium partial pressures of the components of ideal and non-ideal binary solution as a function of the mole fraction XA. When XA → 1, we have a dilute solution of B in A. In this region the Raoult’s law pA = XA p*A is applied for A. In the region where XA → 0, we have the Raoult’s law pB = XB p*B for B component.

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pWater activity may be approximated as

Cubic ice hypothesis

Hexagonal ice

The arrangement of water molecules in hexagonal ice

Cubic ice

Hexagonal ice lattice

Diffraction patterns from frozen emulsified droplets of 30 wt % HNO3.

Ratio of vapor pressure of cubic and hexagonal ices

The hypotheses of organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol

Organic coating of sulfuric acid aerosol

The hypotheses of concentrated glassy citric acid aerosol

Calorimetric thermograms of emulsified 17 wt% H2SO4 and 17/3 wt% H2SO4/HNO3.

Complete and truncated thermograms of 20wt% H2SO4.

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Droplets are on hydrophobic surface.

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