Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin

Andreae, Meinrat O.; Afchine, Armin; Albrecht, Rachel; Holanda, Bruna Amorim; Artaxo, Paulo; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Borrmann, Stephan; Cecchini, Micael A.; Costa, Anja; Dollner, Maximilian; Fütterer, Daniel; Järvinen, Emma; Jurkat, Tina; Klimach, Thomas; Konemann, Tobias; Knote, Christoph; Krämer, Martina; Krisna, Trismono; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Mertes, Stephan; Minikin, Andreas; Pöhlker, Christopher; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Pöschl, Ulrich; Rosenfeld, Daniel; Sauer, Daniel; Schlager, Hans; Schnaiter, Martin; Schneider, Johannes; Schulz, Christiane; Spanu, Antonio; Sperling, Vinicius B.; Voigt, Christiane; Walser, Adrian; Wang, Jian; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Wendisch, Manfred; Ziereis, Helmut

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-921-2018

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Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin

Meinrat O. Andreae, Armin Afchine, Rachel Albrecht, Bruna Amorim Holanda, Paulo Artaxo, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Stephan Borrmann, Micael A. Cecchini, Anja Costa, Maximilian Dollner, Daniel Fütterer, Emma Järvinen, Tina Jurkat, Thomas Klimach, Tobias Konemann, Christoph Knote, Martina Krämer, Trismono Krisna, Luiz A. T. Machado, Stephan Mertes, Andreas Minikin, Christopher Pöhlker, Mira L. Pöhlker, Ulrich Pöschl, Daniel Rosenfeld, Daniel Sauer, Hans Schlager, Martin Schnaiter, Johannes Schneider, Christiane Schulz, Antonio Spanu, Vinicius B. Sperling, Christiane Voigt, Adrian Walser, Jian Wang, Bernadett Weinzierl, Manfred Wendisch, and Helmut Ziereis

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RC1: 'Review of Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin', H. Gordon, 22 Aug 2017
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 1 (H. Gordon)', Meinrat O. Andreae, 02 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Review of "Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon basin"', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Meinrat O. Andreae, 02 Nov 2017
RC3: 'Review of Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Meinrat O. Andreae, 01 Nov 2017

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We made airborne measurements of aerosol particle concentrations and properties over the Amazon Basin. We found extremely high concentrations of very small particles in the region between 8 and 14 km altitude all across the basin, which had been recently formed by gas-to-particle conversion at these altitudes. This makes the upper troposphere a very important source region of atmospheric particles with significant implications for the Earth's climate system.