New particle formation in the southern Aegean Sea during the Etesians: importance for CCN production and cloud droplet number

Kalkavouras, Panayiotis; Bossioli, Elissavet; Bezantakos, Spiros; Bougiatioti, Aikaterini; Kalivitis, Nikos; Stavroulas, Iasonas; Kouvarakis, Giorgos; Protonotariou, Anna P.; Dandou, Aggeliki; Biskos, George; Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos; Nenes, Athanasios; Tombrou, Maria

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-175-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-175-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-175-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

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04 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 04 Jan 2017

New particle formation in the southern Aegean Sea during the Etesians: importance for CCN production and cloud droplet number

Panayiotis Kalkavouras, Elissavet Bossioli, Spiros Bezantakos, Aikaterini Bougiatioti, Nikos Kalivitis, Iasonas Stavroulas, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Anna P. Protonotariou, Aggeliki Dandou, George Biskos, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Athanasios Nenes, and Maria Tombrou

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RC1: 'Anonymous Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Response Letter to Reviewer #1:', Maria Tombrou - Tzella, 14 Oct 2016
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- AC2: 'Response Letter to Reviewer #2:', Maria Tombrou - Tzella, 14 Oct 2016

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Concentrations of chemically and size-resolved submicron aerosol particles along with concentrations of gases and meteorological variables were measured at Santorini and Finokalia (central and southern Aegean Sea) during the Etesians. Particle nucleation bursts were recorded. The NPF can double CCN number (at 0.1 % supersaturation), but the resulting strong competition for water vapor in cloudy updrafts decreases maximum supersaturation by 14 % and augments the potential droplet number by 12 %.