Chemical composition and phosphate uptake kinetics of limnetic bacterial communities cultured in chemostats under phosphorus limitation

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 939-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olav Vadstein ◽  
Yngvar Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Phosphate Uptake ◽  
Phosphorus Limitation ◽  
Uptake Kinetics ◽  
Kinetics Of

Influence of phosphate status on phosphate uptake kinetics of maize (Zea mays) and soybean (Glycine max)

1990 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jungk ◽  
C. J. Asher ◽  
D. G. Edwards ◽  
D. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Zea Mays ◽  
Glycine Max ◽  
Phosphate Uptake ◽  
Uptake Kinetics ◽  
Kinetics Of

Growth and phosphate uptake kinetics of the cyanobacterium, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Cyanophyceae) in throughflow cultures

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Isvánovics ◽  
Hesham M. Shafik ◽  
Mátyás Présing ◽  
Szilveszter Juhos
Keyword(s):  
Phosphate Uptake ◽  
Uptake Kinetics ◽  
Cylindrospermopsis Raciborskii ◽  
Kinetics Of

scholarly journals Mixing state and compositional effects on CCN activity and droplet growth kinetics of size-resolved CCN in an urban environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 10239-10255 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. T. Padró ◽  
R. H. Moore ◽  
X. Zhang ◽  
N. Rastogi ◽  
R. J. Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Anthropogenic Sources ◽  
Droplet Growth ◽  
Mixing State ◽  
Aerosol Composition ◽  
Activation Kinetics ◽  
Aerosol Mixing State ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Ccn Activity

Abstract. Aerosol composition and mixing state near anthropogenic sources can be highly variable and can challenge predictions of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). The impacts of chemical composition on CCN activation kinetics is also an important, but largely unknown, aspect of cloud droplet formation. Towards this, we present in-situ size-resolved CCN measurements carried out during the 2008 summertime August Mini Intensive Gas and Aerosol Study (AMIGAS) campaign in Atlanta, GA. Aerosol chemical composition was measured by two particle-into-liquid samplers measuring water-soluble inorganic ions and total water-soluble organic carbon. Size-resolved CCN data were collected using the Scanning Mobility CCN Analysis (SMCA) method and were used to obtain characteristic aerosol hygroscopicity distributions, whose breadth reflects the aerosol compositional variability and mixing state. Knowledge of aerosol mixing state is important for accurate predictions of CCN concentrations and that the influence of an externally-mixed, CCN-active aerosol fraction varies with size from 31% for particle diameters less than 40 nm to 93% for accumulation mode aerosol during the day. Assuming size-dependent aerosol mixing state and size-invariant chemical composition decreases the average CCN concentration overprediction (for all but one mixing state and chemical composition scenario considered) from over 190–240% to less than 20%. CCN activity is parameterized using a single hygroscopicity parameter, κ, which averages to 0.16 ± 0.07 for 80 nm particles and exhibits considerable variability (from 0.03 to 0.48) throughout the study period. Particles in the 60–100 nm range exhibited similar hygroscopicity, with a κ range for 60 nm between 0.06–0.076 (mean of 0.18 ± 0.09). Smaller particles (40 nm) had on average greater κ, with a range of 0.20–0.92 (mean of 0.3 ± 0.12). Analysis of the droplet activation kinetics of the aerosol sampled suggests that most of the CCN activate as rapidly as calibration aerosol, suggesting that aerosol composition exhibits a minor (if any) impact on CCN activation kinetics.

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