Articles | Volume 18, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14925-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14925-2018
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17 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 17 Oct 2018

Measured particle water uptake enhanced by co-condensing vapours

Dawei Hu, David Topping, and Gordon McFiggans

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Co-condensation of inorganic or organic vapours on growing droplets could significantly enhance both CCN and cloud droplet number concentration, thereby influencing climate. Until now, there has been very few direct observational evidence of this process. We exposed involatile inorganic particles to a moist atmosphere containing a controlled amount of an organic semi-volatile vapour. We measured a much greater growth of the particles than if they had only been exposed to water vapour.
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