Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles

Francesco Riccobono; Siegfried Schobesberger; Catherine E. Scott; Josef Dommen; Ismael K. Ortega; Linda Rondo; Joao Almeida; Antonio Amorim; Federico Bianchi; Martin Breitenlechner; Andre David; Andrew Downard; Eimear M. Dunne; Jonathan Duplissy; Sebastian Ehrhart; Richard C. Flagan; Alessandro Franchin; Armin Hansel; Heikki Junninen; Maija Kajos; Helmi Keskinen; Agnieszka Kupc; Andreas Kuerten; Alexander N. Kvashin; Ari Laaksonen; Katrianne Lehtipalo; Vladimir Makhmutov; Serge Mathot; Tuomo Nieminen; Antti Onnela; Tuukka Petaja; Arnaud P. Praplan; Filipe D. Santos; Simon Schallhart; John H. Seinfeld; Mikko Sipila; Dominick V. Spracklen; Yuri Stozhkov; Frank Stratmann; Antonio Tome; Georgios Tsagkogeorgas; Petri Vaattovaara; Yrjo Viisanen; Aron Vrtala; Paul E. Wagner; Ernest Weingartner; Heike Wex; Daniela Wimmer; Kenneth S. Carslaw; Joachim Curtius; Neil M. Donahue; Jasper Kirkby; Markku Kulmala; Douglas R. Worsnop; Urs Baltensperger

doi:10.1126/science.1243527

Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles

Francesco Riccobono
, Siegfried Schobesberger
, Catherine E. Scott
, Josef Dommen
, Ismael K. Ortega
, Linda Rondo
, Joao Almeida
, Antonio Amorim
, Federico Bianchi
, Martin Breitenlechner
, Andre David
, Andrew Downard
, Eimear M. Dunne
, Jonathan Duplissy
, Sebastian Ehrhart
, Richard C. Flagan
, Alessandro Franchin
, Armin Hansel
, Heikki Junninen
, Maija Kajos

Helmi Keskinen, Agnieszka Kupc, Andreas Kuerten, Alexander N. Kvashin, Ari Laaksonen, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Vladimir Makhmutov, Serge Mathot, Tuomo Nieminen, Antti Onnela, Tuukka Petaja, Arnaud P. Praplan, Filipe D. Santos, Simon Schallhart, John H. Seinfeld, Mikko Sipila, Dominick V. Spracklen, Yuri Stozhkov, Frank Stratmann, Antonio Tome, Georgios Tsagkogeorgas, Petri Vaattovaara, Yrjo Viisanen, Aron Vrtala, Paul E. Wagner, Ernest Weingartner, Heike Wex, Daniela Wimmer, Kenneth S. Carslaw, Joachim Curtius, Neil M. Donahue, Jasper Kirkby, Markku Kulmala, Douglas R. Worsnop, Urs Baltensperger (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Atmospheric new-particle formation affects climate and is one of the least understood atmospheric aerosol processes. The complexity and variability of the atmosphere has hindered elucidation of the fundamental mechanism of new-particle formation from gaseous precursors. We show, in experiments performed with the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) chamber at CERN, that sulfuric acid and oxidized organic vapors at atmospheric concentrations reproduce particle nucleation rates observed in the lower atmosphere. The experiments reveal a nucleation mechanism involving the formation of clusters containing sulfuric acid and oxidized organic molecules from the very first step. Inclusion of this mechanism in a global aerosol model yields a photochemically and biologically driven seasonal cycle of particle concentrations in the continental boundary layer, in good agreement with observations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	717-721
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science
Volume	344
Issue number	6185
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243527
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2014

Funding

We thank CERN for supporting CLOUD with important technical and financial resources and providing a particle beam from the CERN PS; J.-L. Agostini, P. Carrie, L.-P. De Menezes, F. Josa, I. Krasin, R. Kristic, O. S. Maksumov, S. V. Mizin, R. Sitals, A. Wasem, and M. Wilhelmsson for their important contributions to the experiment; and C. Kuang and V.-M. Kerminen for providing the observational data sets used in Fig. 1A and the authors that contributed to them. This research was funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (Marie Curie Initial Training Network "CLOUD-ITN," grant no. 215072), the European Research Council Advanced Grant "ATMNUCLE" (no. 227463), the Academy of Finland via the Centre of Excellence program (project no. 1118615) and grant no. 1133872, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (project no. 01LK0902A), the Swiss National Science Foundation (project no. 206621_125025 and 206620_130527), the Austrian Science Fund (project no. P19546 and L593), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (project no. CERN/FP/116387/2010), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant N08-02-91006-CERN), the Davidow Foundation, the Royal Society Wolfson Award, and the NSF (grants AGS1136479 and CHE1012293). The data reported in this paper are available online as .txt files in the supplementary materials).

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103037 Environmental physics
105904 Environmental research

Keywords

SULFURIC-ACID
GLOBAL AEROSOL
NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS
ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS
BOREAL FOREST
GROWTH-RATES
MODEL
H2SO4
SIZE
NANOPARTICLES

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Riccobono, F., Schobesberger, S., Scott, C. E., Dommen, J., Ortega, I. K., Rondo, L., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., David, A., Downard, A., Dunne, E. M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Hansel, A., Junninen, H., ... Baltensperger, U. (2014). Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles. Science, 344(6185), 717-721. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243527

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Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles

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