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Technical note: Sublimation of frozen CsCl solutions in an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) – determining the number and size of salt particles relevant to sea salt aerosols
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Vilém Neděla
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Kamila Závacká
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,
Cambridge, UK
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Republic
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Short summary
Salt aerosols are important to polar atmospheric chemistry and global climate. Therefore, we utilized a unique electron microscope to identify the most suitable conditions for formation of the small salt (CsCl) particles, proxies of the aerosols, from sublimating salty snow. Very low sublimation temperature and low salt concentration are needed for formation of such particles. These observations may help us to better understand polar spring ozone depletion and bromine explosion events.
Salt aerosols are important to polar atmospheric chemistry and global climate. Therefore, we...
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