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Research article
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25 Nov 2021
Research article |
| 25 Nov 2021
| 25 Nov 2021
Chemical composition of nanoparticles from α-pinene nucleation and the influence of isoprene and relative humidity at low temperature
Lucía Caudillo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Birte Rörup
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Martin Heinritzi
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Guillaume Marie
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mario Simon
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Andrea C. Wagner
Department of Chemistry & CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Tatjana Müller
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Manuel Granzin
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Antonio Amorim
CENTRA and FCUL, University of Lisbon, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Farnoush Ataei
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Rima Baalbaki
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Barbara Bertozzi
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Zoé Brasseur
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Randall Chiu
Department of Chemistry & CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Lubna Dada
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Jonathan Duplissy
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Henning Finkenzeller
Department of Chemistry & CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Loïc Gonzalez Carracedo
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Xu-Cheng He
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Victoria Hofbauer
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Weimeng Kong
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
Houssni Lamkaddam
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Chuan P. Lee
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Brandon Lopez
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Naser G. A. Mahfouz
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Vladimir Makhmutov
Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991,
Moscow, Russia
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research
University, 117303, Moscow, Russia
Hanna E. Manninen
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Ruby Marten
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Dario Massabò
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, 16146
Genoa, Italy
Roy L. Mauldin
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Bernhard Mentler
Institute for Ion and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020
Innsbruck, Austria
Ugo Molteni
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and
Landscape Research, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
92697, USA
Antti Onnela
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Joschka Pfeifer
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Maxim Philippov
Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991,
Moscow, Russia
Ana A. Piedehierro
Atmospheric Composition Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Meredith Schervish
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Wiebke Scholz
Institute for Ion and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020
Innsbruck, Austria
Benjamin Schulze
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Jiali Shen
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Dominik Stolzenburg
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Yuri Stozhkov
Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991,
Moscow, Russia
Mihnea Surdu
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Christian Tauber
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Yee Jun Tham
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Ping Tian
Beijing Weather Modification Office, 100089 Beijing, China
António Tomé
IDL, Universidade da Beira Interior, R. Marquês de Ávila e
Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Steffen Vogt
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Mingyi Wang
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dongyu S. Wang
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Stefan K. Weber
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
André Welti
Atmospheric Composition Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Wang Yonghong
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Wu Yusheng
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Marcel Zauner-Wieczorek
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Urs Baltensperger
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Imad El Haddad
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232
Villigen, Switzerland
Richard C. Flagan
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Armin Hansel
Institute for Ion and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020
Innsbruck, Austria
Ionicon Analytik GmbH, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Kristina Höhler
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Jasper Kirkby
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Markku Kulmala
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for
Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical
Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
Katrianne Lehtipalo
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Atmospheric Composition Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Ottmar Möhler
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Harald Saathoff
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Rainer Volkamer
Department of Chemistry & CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Paul M. Winkler
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Neil M. Donahue
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Andreas Kürten
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Joachim Curtius
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe
University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Short summary
We performed experiments in the CLOUD chamber at CERN at low temperatures to simulate new particle formation in the upper free troposphere (at −30 ºC and −50 ºC). We measured the particle and gas phase and found that most of the compounds present in the gas phase are detected as well in the particle phase. The major compounds in the particles are C8–10 and C18–20. Specifically, we showed that C5 and C15 compounds are detected in a mixed system with isoprene and α-pinene at −30 ºC, 20 % RH.
We performed experiments in the CLOUD chamber at CERN at low temperatures to simulate new...
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