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21 Jul 2022
Research article |
| 21 Jul 2022
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Biomass burning and marine aerosol processing over the southeast Atlantic Ocean: a TEM single-particle analysis
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geophysics, Porter School, Tel Aviv University, Tel
Aviv, 69978, Israel
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, CA, USA
Haochi Che
Department of Geophysics, Porter School, Tel Aviv University, Tel
Aviv, 69978, Israel
Department of Geophysics, Porter School, Tel Aviv University, Tel
Aviv, 69978, Israel
Paola Formenti
Université de Paris Cité and Université Paris-Est Creteil, CNRS,
LISA, 75013 Paris, France
Jonathan Taylor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Manchester, Manchester, UK
Amie Dobracki
Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Sara Purdue
Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Pui-Shan Wong
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, CA, USA
Athanasios Nenes
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts, School of
Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
Center for Studies of Air Quality and Climate Change, Institute of
Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research and Technology
Hellas, Patras 26504, Greece
Arthur Sedlacek III
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Manchester, Manchester, UK
Jens Redemann
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Paquita Zuidema
Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Steven Howell
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
James Haywood
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science, University
of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
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Transmission electron microscopy was used to analyze aged African smoke particles and how the smoke interacts with the marine atmosphere. We found that the volatility of organic aerosol increases with biomass burning plume age, that black carbon is often mixed with potassium salts and that the marine atmosphere can incorporate Na and Cl into smoke particles. Marine salts are more processed when mixed with smoke plumes, and there are interesting Cl-rich yet Na-absent marine particles.
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