Influence of aerosol lifetime on the interpretation of nucleation experiments with respect to the first nucleation theorem

  • The SAWNUC (Sulphuric Acid Water NUCleation) microphysical aerosol nucleation model is used to study the effect of reactor walls on the interpretation of nucleation experiments with respect to nucleation theory. This work shows that loss processes, such as wall losses, influence the interpretation of nucleation experiments, especially at low growth rates and short lifetimes of freshly nucleated particles. In these cases the power dependency of the formation rates, determined at a certain particle size, with respect to H2SO4 does not correspond to the approximate number of H2SO4 molecules in the critical cluster as expected by the first nucleation theorem. Observed ∂log(J)/∂log([H2SO4]) therefore can vary widely for identical nucleation conditions but different sink terms.

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Author:Sebastian Ehrhart, Joachim CurtiusORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-329116
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11465-2013
ISSN:1680-7324
Parent Title (English):Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Publisher:European Geosciences Union
Place of publication:Katlenburg-Lindau
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/11/26
Date of first Publication:2013/11/26
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/02/02
Volume:13
Page Number:7
First Page:11465
Last Page:11471
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© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
HeBIS-PPN:363723544
Institutes:Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0