Articles | Volume 20, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15867-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15867-2020
Research article
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21 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 21 Dec 2020

Identification of molecular cluster evaporation rates, cluster formation enthalpies and entropies by Monte Carlo method

Anna Shcherbacheva, Tracey Balehowsky, Jakub Kubečka, Tinja Olenius, Tapio Helin, Heikki Haario, Marko Laine, Theo Kurtén, and Hanna Vehkamäki

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AnnaShcher/Shcherbacheva_ACDP: Release 1 A. Shcherbacheva https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3766925

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Atmospheric new particle formation and cluster growth to aerosol particles is an important field of research, in particular due to the climate change phenomenon. Evaporation rates are very difficult to account for but they are important to explain the formation and growth of particles. Different quantum chemistry (QC) methods produce substantially different values for the evaporation rates. We propose a novel approach for inferring evaporation rates of clusters from available measurements.
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