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Single Particle Analysis of Aerosols, Observed in the Marine Boundary Layer during the Monterey Area Ship Tracks Experiment (MAST), with Respect to Cloud Droplet Formation

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The chemical composition of individual particles >0.2 μm sampled duringthe MAST-experiment wereanalysed by SEM-EDX, in combination with multivariatetechniques. The objective of this experiment was toidentify the mechanisms responsible for themodification of marine stratocumulus clouds byemissions from ships and in a wider sense to provideinformation on the global processes involved inatmospheric modification of cloud albedo. Aerosolswere examined under different MBL pollution levels(clean, intermediately polluted and moderatelypolluted) in five different reservoirs: backgroundbelow-cloud and above-cloud aerosol; background clouddroplet residual particles; below-cloud ship plumeaerosol and ship track cloud droplet residualparticles.In this study a relation was provided between theaerosol emitted from the ship's stack to an effect incloud. Additionally, a large fraction of the ambientaerosol was found to be composed of organic materialor other compounds, consisting of low Z-elements,associated with chlorine. Their number fraction waslargest in clean marine boundary layers, and decreasedwith increasing pollution levels. The fraction of`transformed sea salt' (Na, Cl, S), on the other hand,increased with the pollution level in the MBL. Only20% of the particles fell within the detectable rangeof the analysis.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp (UIA), B-2610, Antwerp, Belgium

    L. A. De Bock, P. E. Joos & R. E. Van Grieken

  2. Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    K. J. Noone

  3. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, 02882, U.S.A.

    R. A. Pockalny

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De Bock, L.A., Joos, P.E., Noone, K.J. et al. Single Particle Analysis of Aerosols, Observed in the Marine Boundary Layer during the Monterey Area Ship Tracks Experiment (MAST), with Respect to Cloud Droplet Formation. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 37, 299–329 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006416600722

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