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Research article
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11 Feb 2025
Research article |
| 11 Feb 2025
| 11 Feb 2025
Steady-state mixing state of black carbon aerosols from a particle-resolved model
Zhouyang Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Jiaping Wang
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
National Observation and Research Station for Atmospheric Processes and Environmental Change in Yangtze River Delta, Nanjing 210023, China
Nicole Riemer
Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1301 W Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Chao Liu
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Yuzhi Jin
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Zeyuan Tian
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Jing Cai
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Yueyue Cheng
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Ganzhen Chen
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Bin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud and Precipitation Key Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Shuxiao Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Aijun Ding
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
National Observation and Research Station for Atmospheric Processes and Environmental Change in Yangtze River Delta, Nanjing 210023, China
Data sets
Data and materials for the "Steady-State Mixing State of Black Carbon Aerosols from a Particle-Resolved Model" Zhouyang Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13997459
Model code and software
Simulating the evolution of soot mixing state with a particle-resolved aerosol model (https://lagrange.mechse.illinois.edu/partmc/partmc-2.5.0.tar. gz) Nicole Riemer et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011073
Short summary
Black carbon (BC) exerts notable warming effects. We use a particle-resolved model to investigate the long-term behavior of the BC mixing state, revealing its compositions, coating thickness distribution, and optical properties all stabilize with a characteristic time of less than 1 d. This study can effectively simplify the description of the BC mixing state, which facilitates the precise assessment of the optical properties of BC aerosols in global and chemical transport models.
Black carbon (BC) exerts notable warming effects. We use a particle-resolved model to...
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