role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture anatoli bogdan...
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Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture
Anatoli Bogdan
Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck Austria
andDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki
Finland
ContentsIntroduction - observational data of UT moisture - water activity criterion
Approaches for explanation of large UT moisture - cubic ice hypothesis - organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol - glassy organic (citric acid) aerosol - mixed-phase cirrus cloud particles
Observations of UT moisture
The warming is large at the upper troposphere in the tropics and the lower troposphere in the northern high latitude. http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Dep/cl/cl4/yosoku/yosoku-en.htm
Water activity criterion
Maximum RHi of aqueous aerosol droplets which is allowed by a water activity criterion (WAC).
Equilibrium partial pressures of the components of ideal and non-ideal binary solution as a function of the mole fraction XA. When XA → 1, we have a dilute solution of B in A. In this region the Raoult’s law pA = XA p*A is applied for A. In the region where XA → 0, we have the Raoult’s law pB = XB p*B for B component.
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Cubic ice hypothesis
Hexagonal ice
The arrangement of water molecules in hexagonal ice
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Hexagonal ice lattice
Diffraction patterns from frozen emulsified droplets of 30 wt % HNO3.
Ratio of vapor pressure of cubic and hexagonal ices
The hypotheses of organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol
Organic coating of sulfuric acid aerosol
The hypotheses of concentrated glassy citric acid aerosol
Calorimetric thermograms of emulsified 17 wt% H2SO4 and 17/3 wt% H2SO4/HNO3.
Complete and truncated thermograms of 20wt% H2SO4.
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