Articles | Volume 20, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10029-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10029-2020
Research article
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27 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 27 Aug 2020

Molecular insights into new particle formation in Barcelona, Spain

James Brean, David C. S. Beddows, Zongbo Shi, Brice Temime-Roussel, Nicolas Marchand, Xavier Querol, Andrés Alastuey, María Cruz Minguillón, and Roy M. Harrison

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New particle formation is a key process influencing both local air quality and climatically active cloud condensation nuclei concentrations. This study has carried out fundamental measurements of nucleation processes in Barcelona, Spain, and concludes that a mechanism involving stabilisation of sulfuric acid clusters by low molecular weight amines is primarily responsible for new particle formation events.
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