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Characterization of aerosol hygroscopicity, mixing state, and CCN activity at a suburban site in the central North China Plain
Yuying Wang
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and ESSIC, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Yingjie Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and
Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and
Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100049, China
Fang Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Haobo Tan
Key Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, Institute of
Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration,
Guangzhou 510080, China
Hanbing Xu
Shared Experimental Education Center, Sun Yat-sen University,
Guangzhou 510275, China
Tianyi Fan
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Xiaoai Jin
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Xinxin Fan
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Zipeng Dong
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing 100875, China
Qiuyan Wang
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and
Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100049, China
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Very different aerosol hygroscopicities and mixing states were found at these sites in the North China Plain. The PDF for 40–200 nm particles showed the particles were highly aged and internally mixed at Xingtai because of high pollution and strong photochemical reactions. A good proxy for the chemical comical composition (kappa = 0.31) in calculating CCN concentration was found. Importantly, our study investigated the influence of industrial emissions on the aerosol properties.
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