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Ambient particles at an urban, semi-urban and rural site in Central Europe: Hygroscopic properties.
Atmos. Environ. 39, 343-352 (2005)
Measurements on hygroscopic properties of sub-micrometer atmospheric particles have been carried out using a tandem differential mobility analyser (TDMA). It measures the growth of initially dry monodisperse particles with sizes of 50,100,15050,100,150 and 250 nm at a relative humidity (RH) of 0.85. Measurements have been carried out at an urban, semi-urban and rural location in Bavaria (Germany) each during 1 week in winter, summer and fall. Two fractions of particles are found, hygroscopic and non-hygroscopic particles with mean growth factors of 1.37 and 1.03, respectively. Growth factors are nearly independent of location and season, but increased significantly with initial particle size from 1.31 to 1.47 for 50 and 250 nm particles, respectively. The mean number concentration of non-hygroscopic particles is strongly dependent on location and increases by a factor of 2.4 for the semi-urban site and by a factor of 9 for the urban site, compared to the rural location. The corresponding differences for hygroscopic particles are less than a factor of three, respectively. Individual measurements strongly differ in number concentration from each other. Assuming that the hygroscopic material is ammonium sulphate, the non-hygroscopic particles and the hygroscopic particles contain about 3% and 54% ammonium sulphate, respectively. For the hygroscopic particles the mean increase of ammonium sulphate was 38–74% for 50 and 250 nm particles, respectively.
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Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter
attmospheric particles; hygroscopic particles; TDMA; growth factor; hygroscopic mass fraction
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2005
HGF-Berichtsjahr
0
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1352-2310
e-ISSN
1873-2844
Zeitschrift
Atmospheric Environment
Quellenangaben
Band: 39,
Heft: 2,
Seiten: 343-352
Verlag
Elsevier
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI)
POF Topic(s)
30202 - Environmental Health
Forschungsfeld(er)
Lung Research
PSP-Element(e)
G-505000-001
Erfassungsdatum
2005-02-21