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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Interplay Between Upper and Ground Levels Dynamics and Chemistry in Determining the Surface Aerosol Budget
We use the WRF/Chem model to interpret observations of the aerosol concentration and its chemical composition both at surface level and along vertical profiles performed during an intensive campaign in July 20...
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Article
Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Size-Segregated Aerosol Collected at an Urban Site in Sicily
Aerosol samples were collected at Catania (Italy), from 16 March to 13 June 2005. The sampling was performed using a low pressure five-stage Berner cascade impactor. The samples were analysed for total aerosol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Organic Marine Aerosol: State-of-the-Art and New Findings
The present work reviews the state of knowledge on organic marine aerosol, starting with an historic overview of the topic from the early 1970s to the most recent years. New results from the MAP-EU project are...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Chemical Fluxes in North-east Atlantic Air
An alternative method for the estimation of chemical aerosol fluxes, based on a vertical concentration gradient measurement, has been developed and executed at the coastal research station in Mace Head, Irelan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Combined Organic–Inorganic Sea-spray Source Function
This study presents a novel approach to determine sea-spray generation by a combined organic–inorganic submicron source function. It requires wind speed and surface ocean chlorophyll-a concentration as input p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Conditions Favouring New Particle Formation in A Polluted Environment: Results of the QUEST-Po Valley Experiment 2004
In the framework of the QUEST-EC project, an intensive measurement campaign was carried out in early spring 2004 at San Pietro Capofiume, a rural site located in the Po Valley. The aim was to investigate the m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Nucleation Events in Melpitz, Germany, and Po Valley, Italy: Similarities and Differences
This study has been designed to investigate the factors that influence the occurrence of new particle formation events (particles >3 nm) in two anthropogenically influenced boundary layer regimes in Central Eu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Similarity Between Aerosol Physicochemical Properties at a Coastal Station and Open Ocean over the North Atlantic
In order to assess the potential influence of the costal environment on marine aerosol chemical composition, two parallel aerosol data sets, collected during two campaigns (coastal site campaign at Mace Head s...
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Chapter
Individual Results from GCE Principal Investigators
The ECN contribution to the Ground-based Cloud Experiments (GCE) comprised measurements of the droplet spectra and of gases like NH3 and HNO3. In a wind tunnel/cloud chamber several fog samplers and optical instr...
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Chapter
Multiphase Chemistry and Acidity of Clouds at Kleiner Feldberg
The chemistry of cloud multiphase systems was studied within the Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990. The clouds encountered during this experimental campaign could be divided into two categories according ...
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Chapter
Henry’s Law and the Behavior of Weak Acids and Bases in Fog and Cloud
Experimental data from two field experiments on ground based clouds were used to study the distribution of formic acid, acetic acid, ammonia and S(IV) species between liquid and gas phase. The ratio of the con...
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Chapter
The Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990. An Overview
An overview is given of the Kleiner Feldberg cloud experiment performed from 27 October until 13 November 1990. The experiment was carried out by numerous European research groups as a joint effort within the ...
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Chapter
Computer Modelling of Clouds at Kleiner Feldberg
The airflow, cloud microphysics and gas- and aqueous-phase chemistry on Kleiner Feldberg have been modelled for the case study of the evening of 1 November 1990, in order to calculate parameters that are not e...
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Article
Multiphase chemistry and acidity of clouds at Kleiner Feldberg
The chemistry of cloud multiphase systems was studied within the Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990. The clouds encountered during this experimental campaign could be divided into two categories according ...
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Article
Henry's law and the behavior of weak acids and bases in fog and cloud
Experimental data from two field experiments on ground based clouds were used to study the distribution of formic acid, acetic acid, ammonia and S(IV) species between liquid and gas phase. The ratio of the con...
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Article
The Kleiner Feldberg Cloud Experiment 1990. An overview
An overview is given of the Kleiner Feldberg cloud experiment performed from 27 October until 13 November 1990. The experiment was carried out by numerous European research groups as a joint effort within the ...
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Article
Computer modelling of clouds at Kleiner Feldberg
The airflow, cloud microphysics and gas- and aqueous-phase chemistry on Kleiner Feldberg have been modelled for the case study of the evening of 1 November 1990, in order to calculate parameters that are not e...
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Chapter
Low Molecular Weight Organic Compounds in the Po Valley Fog Water
Organic compounds which play a role in the chemistry of the atmospheric dispersed liquid phase (fog, cloud, precipitation) must be of sufficiently high polarity and low molecular weight to render them soluble:...
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Chapter
Ground Based Cloud and Fog Experiments
Joined field campaigns were performed each year in November since 1985 at S. Pietro Capofiume in the Po-Valley. Main objectives were the investigation of microphysics and chemistry in radiation fog. The measur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of Carbonyl Compounds in the Atmospheric Liquid Phase
Two high-performance liquid chromatographic methods for the analysis of carbonyl compounds in the atmospheric dispersed liquid phase (fog, clouds and precipitation) are presented: a) determination of formaldeh...
