Revising the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt particles
Nature Communications2017Vol. 8(1), pp. 15883–15883
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Paul Zieger, Olli Väisänen, Joel C. Corbin, Daniel G. Partridge, Sandra Bastelberger, Mehrnoush Mousavi-Fard, Bernadette Rosati, M. Gysel, Ulrich K. Krieger, Caroline Leck, Athanasios Nenes, Ilona Riipinen, Annele Virtanen, Matthew Salter
Abstract
Sea spray is one of the largest natural aerosol sources and plays an important role in the Earth's radiative budget. These particles are inherently hygroscopic, that is, they take-up moisture from the air, which affects the extent to which they interact with solar radiation. We demonstrate that the hygroscopic growth of inorganic sea salt is 8-15% lower than pure sodium chloride, most likely due to the presence of hydrates. We observe an increase in hygroscopic growth with decreasing particle size (for particle diameters s=1.1 (at RH=90%) is used to represent the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt particles in numerical models.
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