Infrequent new particle formation over the remote boreal forest of Siberia

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Date
2018
Volume
200
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Atmospheric environment
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Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
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Aerosol particle number size distributions (PNSD) were investigated to verify, if extremely low-volatility organic vapors (ELVOC) from natural sources alone could induce new particle formation and growth events over the remote boreal forest region of Siberia, hundreds of kilometers away from significant anthropogenic sources. We re-evaluated observations determined at a height of 300 m of the remote observatory ZOTTO (Zotino Tall Tower Observatory, http://www.zottoproject.org). We found that new particle formation events occurred only on 11 days in a 3-year period, suggesting that homogeneous nucleation with a subsequent condensational growth could not be the major process, maintaining the particle number concentration in the planetary boundary layer of the remote boreal forest area of Siberia. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd

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Wiedensohler, A., Ma, N., Birmili, W., Heintzenberg, J., Ditas, F., Andreae, M. O., & Panov, A. (2018). Infrequent new particle formation over the remote boreal forest of Siberia (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science). Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science. https://doi.org//10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.12.013
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