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@PHDTHESIS{Rubach:134244,
author = {Rubach, Florian},
title = {{A}erosol processes in the {P}lanetary {B}oundary {L}ayer:
{H}igh resolution {A}erosol {M}ass {S}pectrometry on a
{Z}eppelin {NT} {A}irship},
volume = {196},
school = {Universität Wuppertal},
type = {Dr.},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2013-02492},
isbn = {978-3-89336-918-8},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums JülichReihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {iii, 141 S.},
year = {2013},
note = {Universität Wuppertal, Diss., 2013},
abstract = {Atmospheric aerosol plays an ambivalent role for mankind.
On the one hand, aerosol is known to have adverse health
effects and even increase mortality. On the other hand, a
raised aerosol concentration in the atmosphere is the only
anthropogenic contribution to the Earth’s climate known to
have a net cooling effect by scattering light and acting as
cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Among other things, the
magnitude of these effects depend on the chemical
composition of the aerosol. In this work, an Aerosol Mass
Spectrometer (AMS) was adapted for airborne aerosol chemical
composition measurements on a Zeppelin NT airship. The
Zeppelinplatform allows for measurements with high spatial
resolution throughout the entire planetary boundary layer
(PBL). The new instrument was successfully operated aboard
the Zeppelin NT on nine out of ten flight days of a seven
week campaign in two countries in the context of the
European project PEGASOS. The mass concentrations of the
measured aerosol chemical species are presented for these
days.The campaign observations revealed a higher relative
concentration of nitrate aerosol in the Netherlands compared
to the Po Valley in northern Italy. For sulfate aerosol, the
situation was opposite. Furthermore, the organic aerosol was
more aged in the Po Valley than in the Netherlands. The
influence of the aerosol chemical composition on the cloud
droplet activation was studied by computation of the
critical activation diameter and comparing to aerosol number
size distribution measurements. In some situations, the
chemical composition was the driving force behind changes in
CCN concentration, in other situations its effect was
overshadowed by changes in the size distribution.
Differences between the individual layers of the PBL were
identified in the mass concentrations of the aerosol
chemical species and the organic aerosol age. A backward
trajectory analysis was used in conjunction with the
obtained data to estimate the aerosol production rate of the
Po Valley to 0.60 ($\mu$g/m$^{3}$)/h for organic aerosol,
0.88 ($\mu$g/m$^{3}$)/h for nitrate aerosol, and 0.15
($\mu$g/m$^{3}$)/h for sulfate aerosol.The aerosol ion
balance was used to gain insights into organic aerosol
functionalization patterns.},
keywords = {Dissertation (GND)},
cin = {IEK-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {233 - Trace gas and aerosol processes in the troposphere
(POF2-233)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-233},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/134244},
}