scholarly journals Hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosol particles based on active remote sensing and radiosounding measurements

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 10293-10326
Author(s):  
M. J. Granados-Muñoz ◽  
F. Navas-Guzmán ◽  
J. A. Bravo-Aranda ◽  
J. L. Guerrero-Rascado ◽  
H. Lyamani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Aerosol Particle ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol ◽  
Enhancement Factor ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Mineral Dust ◽  
Concentration Profiles ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Backscatter Coefficient ◽  
Growth Effects

Abstract. A new methodology based on combining active and passive remote sensing and simultaneous and collocated radiosounding data to study the aerosol hygroscopic growth effects on the particle optical and microphysical properties is presented. The identification of hygroscopic growth situations combines the analysis of multiespectral aerosol particle backscatter coefficient and particle linear depolarization ratio with thermodynamic profiling of the atmospheric column. We analysed the hygroscopic growth effects on aerosol properties, namely the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient and the volume concentration profiles, using data gathered at Granada EARLINET station. Two study cases, corresponding to different aerosol loads and different aerosol types, are used for illustrating the potential of this methodology. Values of the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient enhancement factors range from 2.10 ± 0.06 to 3.90 ± 0.03, being similar to those previously reported in the literature. Differences in the enhancement factor are directly linked to the composition of the atmospheric aerosol. The largest value of the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient enhancement factor corresponds to the presence of sulphate and marine particles that are more affected by hygroscopic growth. On the contrary, the lowest value of the enhancement factor corresponds to an aerosol mixture containing sulphates and slight traces of mineral dust. The Hänel parameterization is applied to these case studies, obtaining results within the range of values reported in previous studies, with values of the γ exponent of 0.56 ± 0.01 (for anthropogenic particles slightly influenced by mineral dust) and 1.07 ± 0.01 (for the situation dominated by anthropogenic particles), showing the convenience of this remote sensing approach for the study of hygroscopic effects of the atmospheric aerosol under ambient unperturbed conditions. For the first time, the retrieval of the volume concentration profiles for these cases using the Lidar Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) allows us to analyse the aerosol hygroscopic growth effects on aerosol volume concentration, observing a stronger increase of the fine mode volume concentration with increasing relative humidity.

scholarly journals Hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosol particles based on active remote sensing and radiosounding measurements: selected cases in southeastern Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 705-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Granados-Muñoz ◽  
F. Navas-Guzmán ◽  
J. A. Bravo-Aranda ◽  
J. L. Guerrero-Rascado ◽  
H. Lyamani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Aerosol Particle ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol ◽  
Enhancement Factor ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Concentration Profiles ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Backscatter Coefficient ◽  
Growth Effects

Abstract. A new methodology based on combining active and passive remote sensing and simultaneous and collocated radiosounding data to study the aerosol hygroscopic growth effects on the particle optical and microphysical properties is presented. The identification of hygroscopic growth situations combines the analysis of multispectral aerosol particle backscatter coefficient and particle linear depolarization ratio with thermodynamic profiling of the atmospheric column. We analyzed the hygroscopic growth effects on aerosol properties, namely the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient and the volume concentration profiles, using data gathered at Granada EARLINET station. Two study cases, corresponding to different aerosol loads and different aerosol types, are used for illustrating the potential of this methodology. Values of the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient enhancement factors range from 2.1 ± 0.8 to 3.9 ± 1.5, in the ranges of relative humidity 60–90 and 40–83%, being similar to those previously reported in the literature. Differences in the enhancement factor are directly linked to the composition of the atmospheric aerosol. The largest value of the aerosol particle backscatter coefficient enhancement factor corresponds to the presence of sulphate and marine particles that are more affected by hygroscopic growth. On the contrary, the lowest value of the enhancement factor corresponds to an aerosol mixture containing sulphates and slight traces of mineral dust. The Hänel parameterization is applied to these case studies, obtaining results within the range of values reported in previous studies, with values of the γ exponent of 0.56 ± 0.01 (for anthropogenic particles slightly influenced by mineral dust) and 1.07 ± 0.01 (for the situation dominated by anthropogenic particles), showing the convenience of this remote sensing approach for the study of hygroscopic effects of the atmospheric aerosol under ambient unperturbed conditions. For the first time, the retrieval of the volume concentration profiles for these cases using the Lidar Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) allows us to analyze the aerosol hygroscopic growth effects on aerosol volume concentration, observing a stronger increase of the fine mode volume concentration with increasing relative humidity.

scholarly journals Hygroscopic growth study in the framework of EARLINET during the SLOPE I campaign: synergy of remote sensing and in situ instrumentation

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 7001-7017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Esteban Bedoya-Velásquez ◽  
Francisco Navas-Guzmán ◽  
María José Granados-Muñoz ◽  
Gloria Titos ◽  
Roberto Román ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Microwave Radiometer ◽  
Growth Parameter ◽  
Horizontal Wind ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Backscatter Coefficient ◽  
532 Nm

Abstract. This study focuses on the analysis of aerosol hygroscopic growth during the Sierra Nevada Lidar AerOsol Profiling Experiment (SLOPE I) campaign by using the synergy of active and passive remote sensors at the ACTRIS Granada station and in situ instrumentation at a mountain station (Sierra Nevada, SNS). To this end, a methodology based on simultaneous measurements of aerosol profiles from an EARLINET multi-wavelength Raman lidar (RL) and relative humidity (RH) profiles obtained from a multi-instrumental approach is used. This approach is based on the combination of calibrated water vapor mixing ratio (r) profiles from RL and continuous temperature profiles from a microwave radiometer (MWR) for obtaining RH profiles with a reasonable vertical and temporal resolution. This methodology is validated against the traditional one that uses RH from co-located radiosounding (RS) measurements, obtaining differences in the hygroscopic growth parameter (γ) lower than 5 % between the methodology based on RS and the one presented here. Additionally, during the SLOPE I campaign the remote sensing methodology used for aerosol hygroscopic growth studies has been checked against Mie calculations of aerosol hygroscopic growth using in situ measurements of particle number size distribution and submicron chemical composition measured at SNS. The hygroscopic case observed during SLOPE I showed an increase in the particle backscatter coefficient at 355 and 532 nm with relative humidity (RH ranged between 78 and 98 %), but also a decrease in the backscatter-related Ångström exponent (AE) and particle linear depolarization ratio (PLDR), indicating that the particles became larger and more spherical due to hygroscopic processes. Vertical and horizontal wind analysis is performed by means of a co-located Doppler lidar system, in order to evaluate the horizontal and vertical dynamics of the air masses. Finally, the Hänel parameterization is applied to experimental data for both stations, and we found good agreement on γ measured with remote sensing (γ532=0.48±0.01 and γ355=0.40±0.01) with respect to the values calculated using Mie theory (γ532=0.53±0.02 and γ355=0.45±0.02), with relative differences between measurements and simulations lower than 9 % at 532 nm and 11 % at 355 nm.

scholarly journals Hygroscopicity of Different Types of Aerosol Particles: Case Studies Using Multi-Instrument Data in Megacity Beijing, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Wu ◽  
Zhanqing Li ◽  
Jun Chen ◽  
Yuying Wang ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enhancement Factor ◽  
Mineral Dust ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Dust Aerosol ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Chemical Components ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Microphysical Properties ◽  
Fine Mode ◽  
Fine Mode Aerosol

Water uptake by aerosol particles alters its light-scattering characteristics significantly. However, the hygroscopicities of different aerosol particles are not the same due to their different chemical and physical properties. Such differences are explored by making use of extensive measurements concerning aerosol optical and microphysical properties made during a field experiment from December 2018 to March 2019 in Beijing. The aerosol hygroscopic growth was captured by the aerosol optical characteristics obtained from micropulse lidar, aerosol chemical composition, and aerosol particle size distribution information from ground monitoring, together with conventional meteorological measurements. Aerosol hygroscopicity behaves rather distinctly for mineral dust coarse-mode aerosol (Case I) and non-dust fine-mode aerosol (Case II) in terms of the hygroscopic enhancement factor, f β ( R H , λ 532 ) , calculated for the same humidity range. The two types of aerosols were identified by applying the polarization lidar photometer networking method (POLIPHON). The hygroscopicity for non-dust aerosol was much higher than that for dust conditions with the f β ( R H , λ 532 ) being around 1.4 and 3.1, respectively, at the relative humidity of 86% for the two cases identified in this study. To study the effect of dust particles on the hygroscopicity of the overall atmospheric aerosol, the two types of aerosols were identified and separated by applying the polarization lidar photometer networking method in Case I. The hygroscopic enhancement factor of separated non-dust fine-mode particles in Case I had been significantly strengthened, getting closer to that of the total aerosol in Case II. These results were verified by the hygroscopicity parameter, κ (Case I non-dust particles: 0.357 ± 0.024; Case II total: 0.344 ± 0.026), based on the chemical components obtained by an aerosol chemical speciation instrument, both of which showed strong hygroscopicity. It was found that non-dust fine-mode aerosol contributes more during hygroscopic growth and that non-hygroscopic mineral dust aerosol may reduce the total hygroscopicity per unit volume in Beijing.

scholarly journals Study of aerosol microphysical properties profiles retrieved from ground-based remote sensing and aircraft in-situ measurements during a Saharan dust event

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 9289-9338 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Granados-Muñoz ◽  
J. A. Bravo-Aranda ◽  
D. Baumgardner ◽  
J. L. Guerrero-Rascado ◽  
D. Pérez-Ramírez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Mineral Dust ◽  
In Situ Measurements ◽  
Saharan Dust ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Passive Remote Sensing ◽  
Microphysical Properties ◽  
Multi Wavelength

Abstract. In this work we present an analysis of mineral dust optical and microphysical properties obtained from different retrieval techniques applied to active and passive remote sensing measurements, including a comparison with simultaneous in-situ aircraft measurements. Data were collected in a field campaign performed during a mineral dust outbreak a Granada, Spain, experimental site (37.16° N, 3.61° W, 680 m a.s.l.) on the 27 June 2011. Column-integrated properties are provided by sun- and star-photometry which allows a continuous evaluation of the mineral dust optical properties during both day and night-time. Both the Linear Estimation and AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) inversion algorithms are applied for the retrieval of the column-integrated microphysical particle properties. In addition, vertically-resolved microphysical properties are obtained from a multi-wavelength Raman lidar system included in EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network), by using both LIRIC (Lidar Radiometer Inversion Code) algorithm during daytime and an algorithm applied to the Raman measurements based on the regularization technique during night-time. LIRIC retrievals reveal several dust layers between 3 and 5 km a.s.l. with volume concentrations of the coarse spheroid mode up to 60 μm3 cm−3. The combined use of the regularization and LIRIC methods reveals the night-to-day evolution of the vertical structure of the mineral dust microphysical properties and offers complementary information to that from column-integrated variables retrieved from passive remote sensing. Additionally, lidar depolarization profiles and LIRIC retrieved volume concentration are compared with aircraft in-situ measurements. This study presents for the first time a comparison of both volume concentration and dust particle polarization ratios measured with in-situ and remote sensing techniques. Results for the depolarization measurements in the dust layer indicate reasonable agreement within the estimated uncertainties. The differences in the volume concentration profiles, although somewhat larger, are still within the expected uncertainties.

scholarly journals A comparative study of aerosol microphysical properties retrieved from ground-based remote sensing and aircraft in situ measurements during a Saharan dust event

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1113-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José Granados-Muñoz ◽  
Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda ◽  
Darrel Baumgardner ◽  
Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado ◽  
Daniel Pérez-Ramírez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Mineral Dust ◽  
In Situ Measurements ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Dust Event ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Passive Remote Sensing ◽  
Microphysical Properties

Abstract. In this work we present an analysis of aerosol microphysical properties during a mineral dust event taking advantage of the combination of different state-of-the-art retrieval techniques applied to active and passive remote sensing measurements and the evaluation of some of those techniques using independent data acquired from in situ aircraft measurements. Data were collected in a field campaign performed during a mineral dust outbreak at the Granada, Spain, experimental site (37.16° N, 3.61° W, 680 m a.s.l.) on 27 June 2011. Column-integrated properties are provided by sun- and star-photometry, which allows for a continuous evaluation of the mineral dust optical properties during both day and nighttime. Both the linear estimation and AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) inversion algorithms are applied for the retrieval of the column-integrated microphysical particle properties. In addition, vertically resolved microphysical properties are obtained from a multi-wavelength Raman lidar system included in EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network), by using both LIRIC (Lidar Radiometer Inversion Code) algorithm during daytime and an algorithm applied to the Raman measurements based on the regularization technique during nighttime. LIRIC retrievals reveal the presence of dust layers between 3 and 5 km a.s.l. with volume concentrations of the coarse spheroid mode up to 60 µm3 cm−3. The combined use of the regularization and LIRIC methods reveals the night-to-day evolution of the vertical structure of the mineral dust microphysical properties and offers complementary information to that from column-integrated variables retrieved from passive remote sensing. Additionally, lidar depolarization profiles and LIRIC retrieved volume concentration are compared with aircraft in situ measurements. This study presents for the first time a comparison of the total volume concentration retrieved with LIRIC with independent in situ measurements, obtaining agreement within the estimated uncertainties for both methods and quite good agreement for the vertical distribution of the aerosol layers. Regarding the depolarization, the first published data set of the CAS-POL for polarization ratios is presented here and qualitatively compared with the lidar technique.

Annual and interannual variation in boreal forest aerosol particle number and volume concentration and their connection to particle formation

Tellus B ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miikka Dal Maso ◽  
Antti Hyvärinen ◽  
Mika Komppula ◽  
Peter Tunved ◽  
Veli-Matti Kerminen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Aerosol Particle ◽  
Interannual Variation ◽  
Particle Number ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Particle Formation

Remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol over China

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jietai Mao ◽  
Junhua Zhang ◽  
Chengcai Li ◽  
Meihua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol

scholarly journals Calibration of LACIS as a CCN detector and its use in measuring activation and hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosol particles

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 4519-4527 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wex ◽  
A. Kiselev ◽  
M. Ziese ◽  
F. Stratmann
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Chloride ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Cloud Condensation Nuclei ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Urban Aerosol ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol Particles ◽  
Droplet Activation

Abstract. A calibration for LACIS (Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator) for its use as a CCN (cloud condensation nuclei) detector has been developed. For this purpose, sodium chloride and ammonium sulfate particles of known sizes were generated and their grown sizes were detected at the LACIS outlet. From these signals, the effective critical super-saturation was derived as a function of the LACIS wall temperature. With this, LACIS is calibrated for its use as a CCN detector. The applicability of LACIS for measurements of the droplet activation, and also of the hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosol particles was tested. The activation of the urban aerosol particles used in the measurements was found to occur at a critical super-saturation of 0.46% for particles with a dry diameter of 75 nm, and at 0.42% for 85 nm, respectively. Hygroscopic growth was measured for atmospheric aerosol particles with dry diameters of 150, 300 and 350 nm at relative humidities of 98 and 99%, and it was found that the larger dry particles contained a larger soluble volume fraction of about 0.85, compared to about 0.6 for the 150 nm particles.

Water Interaction with Mineral Dust Aerosol: Particle Size and Hygroscopic Properties of Dust

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Ibrahim ◽  
Manolis N. Romanias ◽  
Laurent Y. Alleman ◽  
Mohamad N. Zeineddine ◽  
Giasemi K. Angeli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Aerosol Particle ◽  
Mineral Dust ◽  
Dust Aerosol ◽  
Water Interaction ◽  
Hygroscopic Properties ◽  
Aerosol Particle Size

scholarly journals Ageing and hygroscopicity variation of black carbon particles in Beijing measured by a quasi-atmospheric aerosol evolution study (QUALITY) chamber

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 10333-10348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfei Peng ◽  
Min Hu ◽  
Song Guo ◽  
Zhuofei Du ◽  
Dongjie Shang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Carbon ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosol ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Reaction Chamber ◽  
Flow Chamber ◽  
Study Quality ◽  
Hygroscopic Growth ◽  
Coating Materials ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Evolution Study

Abstract. Measurements of ageing and hygroscopicity variation of black carbon (BC) particles in Beijing were conducted using a 1.2 m3 quasi-atmospheric aerosol evolution study (QUALITY) chamber, which consisted of a bottom flow chamber through which ambient air was pulled continuously and an upper reaction chamber where ageing of BC particles occurred. Within the reaction chamber, transmission of the solar ultraviolet irradiation was approximately 50–60 %, wall loss of primary gaseous pollutants was negligible, and BC exhibited a half-lifetime of about 3–7 h. Typically, equilibrium for the primary gases, temperature and relative humidity between the reaction chamber and ambient air was established within 1 h. Rapid growth of BC particles occurred, with an average total growth of 77 ± 33 nm and average growth rate of 26 ± 11 nm h−1. Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) accounted for more than 90 % of the coating mass. The O ∕ C ratio of SOA was 0.5, lower than the ambient level. The hygroscopic growth factor of BC particles decreased slightly with an initial thin coating layer because of BC reconstruction, but subsequently increased to 1.06–1.08 upon further ageing. The κ (kappa) values for BC particles and coating materials were calculated as 0.035 and 0.040 at the subsaturation and supersaturation conditions, respectively, indicating low hygroscopicity of coated SOA on BC particles. Hence, our results indicate that initial photochemical ageing of BC particles leads to considerable modifications to morphology and optical properties but does not appreciably alter the particle hygroscopicity in Beijing.

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