NDLI: Inorganic aerosol formation and growth in the Earth's lower and upper atmosphere

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Author	R.W. Saunders J.M.C. Plane
Abstract	This chapter describes the photo-chemical production of aerosol particles in two very different regions of the atmosphere: iodine oxide particles in the marine boundary layer (MBL), and meteoric smoke particles that form in the upper mesosphere from the ablation of interplanetary dust. These two systems are surprisingly analogous - the source of the condensable inorganic vapours is external to the atmosphere, being injected into the atmosphere from the ocean or from space - and the particles are formed by homogeneous nucleation. The purpose of the chapter is to describe a laboratory and modelling study to understand at a fundamental level how the nucleation and growth of the particles occurs. Iodine oxide particles were produced from the photo-oxidation of gaseous I2 with O3, which is most likely the primary photo-chemical route to produce the bursts of new particles observed in the MBL at seaweed-rich coastal locations. The captured particles were observed to be fractal-like (i.e., with open or non-compact structures), and to be composed of the stable oxide I2O5. Meteoric smoke analogues of iron oxide, silicon oxide, and iron silicate composition were similarly formed from the photo-oxidation of iron- and silicon-containing gas-phase precursors in the presence of O3. Imaging of the iron-containing particles showed them to be extended, fractal aggregates. For each system, models were developed to elucidate the growth kinetics of the particles and to characterise them in terms of standard fractal parameters. I2O5 particles were found to have a fractal dimension (Df) value of 2.5 at long growth times, consistent with a particle-cluster diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) mechanism, whereas smoke analogues had lower Df values (1.75) which appear to result from a magnetic aggregation process.
Ending Page	256
Starting Page	239
Page Count	18
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	11554339
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jp4:2006139017
e-ISSN	17647177
Journal	Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings)
Volume Number	139
DOI	10.1051/jp4:2006139017
Language	English
Publisher	EDP Sciences
Publisher Date	2006-12-01
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	EDP Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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