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@ARTICLE{Morgan:12645,
author = {Morgan, W.T. and Allan, J.D. and Bower, K.N. and Esselborn,
M. and Harris, B. and Henzing, J.S. and Highwood, E.J. and
Kiendler-Scharr, A. and McMeeking, G.R. and Mensah, A.A. and
Northway, M.J. and Osborne, S. and Williams, P.I. and
Krejci, R. and Coe, H.},
title = {{E}nhancement of the aerosol direct radiative effect by
semi-volatile aerosol components: airborne measurements in
{N}orth-{W}estern {E}urope},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {10},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-12645},
pages = {8151 - 8171},
year = {2010},
note = {This work is supported by Natural Environment Research
Council (NERC) ADIENT project NE/E011101/1, EUCAARI project
036833-2 and EUSAAR contract 026140. W. T. Morgan was
supported by NERC studentship NER/S/A/2006/14040 and a CASE
sponsorship from Aerodyne Research Inc. The NERC National
Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Facility for Ground
based Atmospheric Measurements (FGAM) supported the
maintenance of the cToF-AMS. NCAS also supported the
development of the data interpretation methods employed here
through its Composition Directorate. Thanks to the Cabauw
IMPACT team for provision of the radiosonde data. We thank
G. de Leeuw, the principal investigator at the AERONET
station at Cabauw for the provision of the AOD data and the
principal investigators at the other AERONET sites used. We
also thank F. Abicht, A. Minikin, T. Hamburger and A. Stohl
for their major contributions to the project. We thank the
FAAM, the Met Office, Avalon, DLR-Falcon and DirectFlight
personnel for their contributions to the campaign.},
abstract = {A case study of atmospheric aerosol measurements exploring
the impact of the vertical distribution of aerosol chemical
composition upon the radiative budget in North-Western
Europe is presented. Sub-micron aerosol chemical composition
was measured by an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS)
on both an airborne platform and a ground-based site at
Cabauw in the Netherlands. The examined period in May 2008
was characterised by enhanced pollution loadings in
North-Western Europe and was dominated by ammonium nitrate
and Organic Matter (OM). Both ammonium nitrate and OM were
observed to increase with altitude in the atmospheric
boundary layer. This is primarily attributed to partitioning
of semi-volatile gas phase species to the particle phase at
reduced temperature and enhanced relative humidity.
Increased ammonium nitrate concentrations in particular were
found to strongly increase the ambient scattering potential
of the aerosol burden, which was a consequence of the large
amount of associated water as well as the enhanced mass.
During particularly polluted conditions, increases in
aerosol optical depth of $50-100\%$ were estimated to occur
due to the observed increase in secondary aerosol mass and
associated water uptake. Furthermore, the single scattering
albedo was also shown to increase with height in the
boundary layer. These enhancements combined to increase the
negative direct aerosol radiative forcing by close to a
factor of two at the median percentile level. Such increases
have major ramifications for regional climate predictions as
semi-volatile components are often not included in aerosol
models.The results presented here provide an ideal
opportunity to test regional and global representations of
both the aerosol vertical distribution and subsequent
impacts in North-Western Europe. North-Western Europe can be
viewed as an analogue for the possible future air quality
over other polluted regions of the Northern Hemisphere,
where substantial reductions in sulphur dioxide emissions
have yet to occur. Anticipated reductions in sulphur dioxide
in polluted regions will result in an increase in the
availability of ammonia to form ammonium nitrate as opposed
to ammonium sulphate. This will be most important where
intensive agricultural practises occur. Our observations
over North-Western Europe, a region where sulphur dioxide
emissions have already been reduced, indicate that failure
to include the semi-volatile behaviour of ammonium nitrate
will result in significant errors in predicted aerosol
direct radiative forcing. Such errors will be particularly
significant on regional scales.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000281845800004},
doi = {10.5194/acp-10-8151-2010},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/12645},
}