Improvements of organic aerosol representations and their effects in large-scale atmospheric models

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Autoren
  • H Tost
  • KJ Pringle
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https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000309424300025&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
DOI
10.5194/acp-12-8687-2012
eISSN
1680-7324
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ISSN
1680-7316
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
18
Zeitschrift
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Paginierung
8687 - 8709
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2012
Status
Published
Titel
Improvements of organic aerosol representations and their effects in large-scale atmospheric models
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  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
12

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Abstract
<jats:p>Abstract. Organics dominate the composition of the atmospheric aerosol, especially in the fine mode, influencing some of its characteristics such as the hygroscopicity, which is of climatic relevance for the Earth system. This study targets an improvement in the description of organic aerosols suitable for large-scale modelling, making use of recent developments based on laboratory and field measurements. In addition to the organic mass and particle number distribution, the proposed method keeps track of the oxidation state of the aerosol based on the OH exposure time, describing some of its chemical characteristics. This study presents the application of the method in a global chemistry climate model, investigates the sensitivity to process formulations and emission assignments, provides a comparison with observations and analyses the climate impact. Even though the organic aerosol mass distribution is hardly affected by the new formulation, it shows impacts (regionally of the order of 10 % to 20 %) on parameters directly influencing climate via the direct and indirect aerosol effects. Furthermore, the global distribution of the organic O:C ratio is analysed in detail, leading to different regimes in the oxidation state: low O:C ratios over the tropical continents due to small OH concentrations caused by OH depletion in chemical reactions, and enhanced oxidation states over the tropical oceans based on less OH scavengers and at high altitudes due to longer atmospheric residence time. Due to the relation between O:C ratio and the aerosol hygroscopicity the ageing results in a more physically and chemically consistent description of aerosol water uptake by the organic aerosol. In comparison with observations reasonable agreement for the O:C ratio within the limits of a global model of the simulations is achieved. </jats:p>
Autoren
  • H Tost
  • KJ Pringle
DOI
10.5194/acp-12-8687-2012
eISSN
1680-7324
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
18
Zeitschrift
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Sprache
en
Online publication date
2012
Paginierung
8687 - 8709
Status
Published online
Herausgeber
Copernicus GmbH
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8687-2012
Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
Improvements of organic aerosol representations and their effects in large-scale atmospheric models
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
12

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