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Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3181-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3181-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Research article
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17 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2020

Electrostatic forces alter particle size distributions in atmospheric dust

Joseph R. Toth III, Siddharth Rajupet, Henry Squire, Blaire Volbers, Jùn Zhou, Li Xie, R. Mohan Sankaran, and Daniel J. Lacks

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Atmospheric dust interacts with solar radiation, which influences the climate, with larger-sized particles having a heating effect, and smaller-sized particles having a cooling effect. Previous studies on long-range dust transport have found larger particles than expected, without a model to explain their transport. We find that sufficient electrostatic forces suspend more larger particles in the atmosphere and may help explain unexpected large particle transport.
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