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  1. Article ; Online: Marine Polymer-Gels' Relevance in the Atmosphere as Aerosols and CCN.

    Orellana, Mónica V / Hansell, Dennis A / Matrai, Patricia A / Leck, Caroline

    Gels (Basel, Switzerland)

    2021  Volume 7, Issue 4

    Abstract: Marine polymer gels play a critical role in regulating ocean basin scale biogeochemical dynamics. This brief review introduces the crucial role of marine gels as a source of aerosol particles and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in cloud formation ... ...

    Abstract Marine polymer gels play a critical role in regulating ocean basin scale biogeochemical dynamics. This brief review introduces the crucial role of marine gels as a source of aerosol particles and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in cloud formation processes, emphasizing Arctic marine microgels. We review the gel's composition and relation to aerosols, their emergent properties, and physico-chemical processes that explain their change in size spectra, specifically in relation to aerosols and CCN. Understanding organic aerosols and CCN in this context provides clear benefits to quantifying the role of marine nanogel/microgel in microphysical processes leading to cloud formation. This review emphasizes the DOC-marine gel/aerosolized gel-cloud link, critical to developing accurate climate models.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-28
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2813982-3
    ISSN 2310-2861 ; 2310-2861
    ISSN (online) 2310-2861
    ISSN 2310-2861
    DOI 10.3390/gels7040185
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  2. Book ; Online: Large-eddy simulation of a two-layer boundary-layer cloud system from the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

    Bulatovic, Ines / Savre, Julien / Tjernström, Michael / Leck, Caroline / Ekman, Annica M. L.

    eISSN: 1680-7324

    2023  

    Abstract: Climate change is particularly noticeable in the Arctic. The most common type of cloud at these latitudes is mixed-phase stratocumulus. These clouds occur frequently and persistently during all seasons and play a critical role in the Arctic energy budget. ...

    Abstract Climate change is particularly noticeable in the Arctic. The most common type of cloud at these latitudes is mixed-phase stratocumulus. These clouds occur frequently and persistently during all seasons and play a critical role in the Arctic energy budget. Previous observations in the central (north of 80 ∘ N) Arctic have shown a high occurrence of prolonged periods of a shallow, single-layer mixed-phase stratocumulus at the top of the boundary layer (BL; altitudes ∼ 300 to 400 m). However, recent observations from the summer of 2018 instead showed a prevalence of a two-layer boundary-layer cloud system. Here we use large-eddy simulation to examine the maintenance of one of the cloud systems observed in the summer of 2018 and the sensitivity of the cloud layers to different micro- and macro-scale parameters. We find that the model generally reproduces the observed thermodynamic structure well, with two near-neutrally stratified layers in the BL caused by a low cloud (located within the first few hundred meters) capped by a lower-altitude temperature inversion and an upper cloud layer (based around one kilometer or slightly higher) capped by the main temperature inversion of the BL. The simulated cloud structure is persistent unless there are low aerosol number concentrations ( ≤ 5 cm −3 ), which cause the upper cloud layer to dissipate, or high large-scale wind speeds ( ≥ 8.5 m s −1 ) , which erode the lower inversion and the related cloud layer. The changes in cloud structure alter both the short- and longwave cloud radiative effect at the surface. This results in changes in the net radiative effect of the modeled cloud system, which can impact the surface melting or freezing. The findings highlight the importance of better understanding and representing aerosol sources and sinks over the central Arctic Ocean. Furthermore, they underline the significance of meteorological parameters, such as the large-scale wind speed, for maintaining the two-layer boundary-layer cloud structure encountered in the lower ...
    Subject code 551
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-26
    Publishing country de
    Document type Book ; Online
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  3. Article ; Online: Investigation of ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography/travelling-wave ion mobility/time-of-flight mass spectrometry for fast profiling of fatty acids in the high Arctic sea surface microlayer.

    Mashayekhy Rad, Farshid / Leck, Caroline / Ilag, Leopold L / Nilsson, Ulrika

    Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM

    2018  Volume 32, Issue 12, Page(s) 942–950

    Abstract: Rationale: Fatty acids are enriched in the ocean surface microlayer (SML) and have as a consequence been detected worldwide in sea spray aerosols. In searching for a relationship between the properties of the atmospheric aerosol and its ability to form ... ...

    Abstract Rationale: Fatty acids are enriched in the ocean surface microlayer (SML) and have as a consequence been detected worldwide in sea spray aerosols. In searching for a relationship between the properties of the atmospheric aerosol and its ability to form cloud condensation nuclei and to promote cloud droplet formation over remote marine areas, the role of surface active fatty acids sourced from the SML is of interest to be investigated. Here we present a fast method for profiling of major fatty acids in SML samples collected in the high Arctic (89°N, 1°W) in the summer of 2001.
    Methods: Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)/travelling-wave ion mobility spectrometry (TWIMS)/time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) for profiling was evaluated and compared with UHPLC/TOFMS. Except for evaporation and centrifugation, no sample preparation was necessary prior to the analysis.
    Results: TOFMS data on accurate mass, isotopic ratios and fragmentation patterns enabled identification of the fatty acids. The TWIMS dimension added to the selectivity by extensive reduction of the noise level and the entire UHPLC/TWIMS/TOFMS method provided a fast profiling of the acids, ranging from C
    Conclusions: This study presents a fast alternative method for screening and profiling of FAs, which has the advantage of not requiring any complicated sample preparation, thus limiting the loss of analytes. Almost no manual handling, together with the very small sample volumes needed, is certainly beneficial for the determination of trace amounts and should open up the field of applications to also include atmospheric aerosol and fog.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-06-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 58731-x
    ISSN 1097-0231 ; 0951-4198
    ISSN (online) 1097-0231
    ISSN 0951-4198
    DOI 10.1002/rcm.8109
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  4. Article ; Online: Scavenging of black carbon in Chilean coastal fogs.

    Heintzenberg, Jost / Cereceda-Balic, Francisco / Vidal, Victor / Leck, Caroline

    The Science of the total environment

    2016  Volume 541, Page(s) 341–347

    Abstract: In November/December 2013 a pilot experiment on aerosol/fog interaction was conducted on a coastal hill in the suburbs of Valparaíso, Chile. Passages of garúa fog were monitored with continuous recordings of a soot photometer and an optical aerosol ... ...

    Abstract In November/December 2013 a pilot experiment on aerosol/fog interaction was conducted on a coastal hill in the suburbs of Valparaíso, Chile. Passages of garúa fog were monitored with continuous recordings of a soot photometer and an optical aerosol spectrometer. An optical fog sensor and an automatic weather station provided meteorological data with which the aerosol could be classified. High-resolution back trajectories added meteorological information. From filter samples, optical and chemical aerosol information was derived. Scavenging coefficients of black carbon (BC) and measured particulate mass below 1 μm diameter (PM1) were estimated with three approaches. Averaging over all fog periods of the campaign yielded a scavenging coefficient of only 6% for BC and 40% for PM1. Dividing the data into four 90°-wind sectors gave scavenging factors for BC ranging from 13% over the Valparaíso, Viña del Mar conurbation to 50% in the marine sector (180°-270°). The third, and independent approach was achieved with two pairs of chemical aerosol samples taken inside and outside fogs, which yielded a scavenging coefficient of 25% for BC and 70% for nonseasalt sulfate. Whereas fogs occurred rather infrequently in the beginning of the campaign highly regular daily fog cycles appeared towards the end of the experiment, which allowed the calculation of typical diurnal cycles of the aerosol in relation to a fog passage.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-01-15
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.057
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  5. Book ; Online: New particle formation in the Svalbard region 2006–2015

    Heintzenberg, Jost / Tunved, Peter / Galí, Martí / Leck, Caroline

    eISSN: 1680-7324

    2017  

    Abstract: Events of new particle formation (NPF) were analyzed in a 10-year data set of hourly particle size distributions recorded on Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Three different types of NPF events were identified through objective search algorithms. The ...

    Abstract Events of new particle formation (NPF) were analyzed in a 10-year data set of hourly particle size distributions recorded on Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Three different types of NPF events were identified through objective search algorithms. The first and simplest algorithm utilizes short-term increases in particle concentrations below 25 nm (PCT (percentiles) events). The second one builds on the growth of the sub-50 nm diameter median (DGR (diameter growth) events) and is most closely related to the classical <q>banana type</q> of event. The third and most complex, multiple-size approach to identifying NPF events builds on a hypothesis suggesting the concurrent production of polymer gel particles at several sizes below ca. 60 nm (MEV (multi-size growth) events). As a first and general conclusion, we can state that NPF events are a summer phenomenon and not related to Arctic haze, which is a late winter to early spring feature. The occurrence of NPF events appears to be somewhat sensitive to the available data on precipitation. The seasonal distribution of solar flux suggests some photochemical control that may affect marine biological processes generating particle precursors and/or atmospheric photochemical processes that generate condensable vapors from precursor gases. Notably, the seasonal distribution of the biogenic methanesulfonate (MSA) follows that of the solar flux although it peaks before the maxima in NPF occurrence. A host of ancillary data and findings point to varying and rather complex marine biological source processes. The potential source regions for all types of new particle formation appear to be restricted to the marginal-ice and open-water areas between northeastern Greenland and eastern Svalbard. Depending on conditions, yet to be clarified new particle formation may become visible as short bursts of particles around 20 nm (PCT events), longer events involving condensation growth (DGR events), or extended events with elevated concentrations of particles at several sizes below 100 nm (MEV events). The seasonal distribution of NPF events peaks later than that of MSA and DGR, and in particular than that of MEV events, which reach into late summer and early fall with open, warm, and biologically active waters around Svalbard. Consequently, a simple model to describe the seasonal distribution of the total number of NPF events can be based on solar flux and sea surface temperature, representing environmental conditions for marine biological activity and condensation sink, controlling the balance between new particle nucleation and their condensational growth. Based on the sparse knowledge about the seasonal cycle of gel-forming marine microorganisms and their controlling factors, we hypothesize that the seasonal distribution of DGR and, more so, MEV events reflect the seasonal cycle of the gel-forming phytoplankton.
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-05-19
    Publishing country de
    Document type Book ; Online
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  6. Article: Highly Active Ice-Nucleating Particles at the Summer North Pole.

    Porter, Grace C E / Adams, Michael P / Brooks, Ian M / Ickes, Luisa / Karlsson, Linn / Leck, Caroline / Salter, Matthew E / Schmale, Julia / Siegel, Karolina / Sikora, Sebastien N F / Tarn, Mark D / Vüllers, Jutta / Wernli, Heini / Zieger, Paul / Zinke, Julika / Murray, Benjamin J

    Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR

    2022  Volume 127, Issue 6, Page(s) e2021JD036059

    Abstract: The amount of ice versus supercooled water in clouds is important for their radiative properties and role in climate feedbacks. Hence, knowledge of the concentration of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) is needed. Generally, the concentrations of INPs are ... ...

    Abstract The amount of ice versus supercooled water in clouds is important for their radiative properties and role in climate feedbacks. Hence, knowledge of the concentration of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) is needed. Generally, the concentrations of INPs are found to be very low in remote marine locations allowing cloud water to persist in a supercooled state. We had expected the concentrations of INPs at the North Pole to be very low given the distance from open ocean and terrestrial sources coupled with effective wet scavenging processes. Here we show that during summer 2018 (August and September) high concentrations of biological INPs (active at >-20°C) were sporadically present at the North Pole. In fact, INP concentrations were sometimes as high as those recorded at mid-latitude locations strongly impacted by highly active biological INPs, in strong contrast to the Southern Ocean. Furthermore, using a balloon borne sampler we demonstrated that INP concentrations were often different at the surface versus higher in the boundary layer where clouds form. Back trajectory analysis suggests strong sources of INPs near the Russian coast, possibly associated with wind-driven sea spray production, whereas the pack ice, open leads, and the marginal ice zone were not sources of highly active INPs. These findings suggest that primary ice production, and therefore Arctic climate, is sensitive to transport from locations such as the Russian coast that are already experiencing marked climate change.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 710256-2
    ISSN 2169-8996 ; 2169-897X ; 0148-0227
    ISSN (online) 2169-8996
    ISSN 2169-897X ; 0148-0227
    DOI 10.1029/2021JD036059
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  7. Article ; Online: Insights into the molecular composition of semi-volatile aerosols in the summertime central Arctic Ocean using FIGAERO-CIMS.

    Siegel, Karolina / Karlsson, Linn / Zieger, Paul / Baccarini, Andrea / Schmale, Julia / Lawler, Michael / Salter, Matthew / Leck, Caroline / Ekman, Annica M L / Riipinen, Ilona / Mohr, Claudia

    Environmental science: atmospheres

    2021  Volume 1, Issue 4, Page(s) 161–175

    Abstract: The remote central Arctic during summertime has a pristine atmosphere with very low aerosol particle concentrations. As the region becomes increasingly ice-free during summer, enhanced ocean-atmosphere fluxes of aerosol particles and precursor gases may ... ...

    Abstract The remote central Arctic during summertime has a pristine atmosphere with very low aerosol particle concentrations. As the region becomes increasingly ice-free during summer, enhanced ocean-atmosphere fluxes of aerosol particles and precursor gases may therefore have impacts on the climate. However, large knowledge gaps remain regarding the sources and physicochemical properties of aerosols in this region. Here, we present insights into the molecular composition of semi-volatile aerosol components collected in September 2018 during the MOCCHA (Microbiology-Ocean-Cloud-Coupling in the High Arctic) campaign as part of the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition with the Swedish Icebreaker
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2634-3606
    ISSN (online) 2634-3606
    DOI 10.1039/d0ea00023j
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  8. Article: Physical and Chemical Properties of Cloud Droplet Residuals and Aerosol Particles During the Arctic Ocean 2018 Expedition.

    Karlsson, Linn / Baccarini, Andrea / Duplessis, Patrick / Baumgardner, Darrel / Brooks, Ian M / Chang, Rachel Y-W / Dada, Lubna / Dällenbach, Kaspar R / Heikkinen, Liine / Krejci, Radovan / Leaitch, W Richard / Leck, Caroline / Partridge, Daniel G / Salter, Matthew E / Wernli, Heini / Wheeler, Michael J / Schmale, Julia / Zieger, Paul

    Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR

    2022  Volume 127, Issue 11, Page(s) e2021JD036383

    Abstract: Detailed knowledge of the physical and chemical properties and sources of particles that form clouds is especially important in pristine areas like the Arctic, where particle concentrations are often low and observations are sparse. Here, we present in ... ...

    Abstract Detailed knowledge of the physical and chemical properties and sources of particles that form clouds is especially important in pristine areas like the Arctic, where particle concentrations are often low and observations are sparse. Here, we present in situ cloud and aerosol measurements from the central Arctic Ocean in August-September 2018 combined with air parcel source analysis. We provide direct experimental evidence that Aitken mode particles (particles with diameters ≲70 nm) significantly contribute to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) or cloud droplet residuals, especially after the freeze-up of the sea ice in the transition toward fall. These Aitken mode particles were associated with air that spent more time over the pack ice, while size distributions dominated by accumulation mode particles (particles with diameters ≳70 nm) showed a stronger contribution of oceanic air and slightly different source regions. This was accompanied by changes in the average chemical composition of the accumulation mode aerosol with an increased relative contribution of organic material toward fall. Addition of aerosol mass due to aqueous-phase chemistry during in-cloud processing was probably small over the pack ice given the fact that we observed very similar particle size distributions in both the whole-air and cloud droplet residual data. These aerosol-cloud interaction observations provide valuable insight into the origin and physical and chemical properties of CCN over the pristine central Arctic Ocean.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 710256-2
    ISSN 2169-8996 ; 2169-897X ; 0148-0227
    ISSN (online) 2169-8996
    ISSN 2169-897X ; 0148-0227
    DOI 10.1029/2021JD036383
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  9. Book ; Online: Size-resolved morphological properties of the high Arctic summer aerosol during ASCOS-2008

    Hamacher-Barth, Evelyne / Leck, Caroline / Jansson, Kjell

    eISSN: 1680-7324

    2016  

    Abstract: The representation of aerosol properties and processes in climate models is fraught with large uncertainties. Especially at high northern latitudes a strong underprediction of aerosol concentrations and nucleation events is observed and can only be ... ...

    Abstract The representation of aerosol properties and processes in climate models is fraught with large uncertainties. Especially at high northern latitudes a strong underprediction of aerosol concentrations and nucleation events is observed and can only be constrained by in situ observations based on the analysis of individual aerosol particles. To further reduce the uncertainties surrounding aerosol properties and their potential role as cloud condensation nuclei this study provides observational data resolved over size on morphological and chemical properties of aerosol particles collected in the summer high Arctic, north of 80° N. Aerosol particles were imaged with scanning and transmission electron microscopy and further evaluated with digital image analysis. In total, 3909 aerosol particles were imaged and categorized according to morphological similarities into three gross morphological groups: single particles, gel particles, and halo particles. Single particles were observed between 15 and 800 nm in diameter and represent the dominating type of particles (82 %). The majority of particles appeared to be marine gels with a broad Aitken mode peaking at 70 nm and accompanied by a minor fraction of ammonium (bi)sulfate with a maximum at 170 nm in number concentration. Gel particles (11 % of all particles) were observed between 45 and 800 nm with a maximum at 154 nm in diameter. Imaging with transmission electron microscopy allowed further morphological discrimination of gel particles in "aggregate" particles, "aggregate with film" particles, and "mucus-like" particles. Halo particles were observed above 75 nm and appeared to be ammonium (bi)sulfate (59 % of halo particles), gel matter (19 %), or decomposed gel matter (22 %), which were internally mixed with sulfuric acid, methane sulfonic acid, or ammonium (bi)sulfate with a maximum at 161 nm in diameter. Elemental dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis of individual particles revealed a prevalence of the monovalent ions Na + /K + for single particles and aggregate particles and of the divalent ions Ca 2+ /Mg 2+ for aggregate with film particles and mucus-like particles. According to these results and other model studies, we propose a relationship between the availability of Na + /K + and Ca 2+ /Mg 2+ and the length of the biopolymer molecules participating in the formation of the three-dimensional gel networks.
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-05-31
    Publishing country de
    Document type Book ; Online
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  10. Book ; Online: New particle formation in the Svalbard region 2006–2015

    Heintzenberg, Jost / Tunved, Peter / Gali, Martí / Leck, Caroline

    eISSN: 1680-7324

    2016  

    Abstract: Events of new particle formation, (NPF), were analyzed in a ten-year data set of hourly particle size distributions recorded on Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Three different types of NPF-events were identified through objective search algorithms. ... ...

    Abstract Events of new particle formation, (NPF), were analyzed in a ten-year data set of hourly particle size distributions recorded on Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Three different types of NPF-events were identified through objective search algorithms. The first and simplest algorithm utilizes short-term increases in particle concentrations below 25 nm, (PCT-events). The second one builds on the growth of the sub-50 nm diameter-median, (DGR-events), and is most closely related to the classical "banana-type" of events. The third and most complex, so-called multiple-size approach to identifying NPF-events builds on a hypothesis suggesting the concurrent production of polymer gel particles at several sizes below about 60 nm, (MEV-events). As a first and general conclusion we can state that NPF-events are a summer phenomenon and not related to Arctic haze, which is a late winter-to-early spring event. NPF-events appear to be somewhat sensitive to the available data on precipitation. The seasonal distribution of solar flux suggests some photochemical control that may affect marine biological processes generating particle precursors and/or atmospheric photochemical processes that generate condensable vapors from precursor gases. Whereas the seasonal distribution of the biogenic methanesulfonate, (MSA), follows that of the solar flux it peaks before the maxima in NPF-occurrence. A host of ancillary data and findings point to varying and rather complex marine biological source processes. The potential source regions for all types of new particle formation appear to be restricted to the marginal ice and open water areas between Northeastern Greenland and Eastern Svalbard. Depending on conditions yet to be clarified new particle formation may become visible as short bursts of particles around 20 nm, (PCT-events), longer events involving condensation growth, (DGR-events), or extended events with elevated concentrations of particles at several sizes below 100 nm, (MEV-events). The seasonal distribution of NPF-events peaks later than that of MSA and, DGR and in particular of MEV-events reach into late summer and early fall with much open, warm, and biologically active waters around Svalbard. Consequently, a simple model to describe the seasonal distribution of the total number of NPF-events can be based on solar flux, and sea surface temperature, representing environmental conditions for marine biological activity, and condensation sink, controlling the balance between new particle nucleation and their condensational growth. Based on the sparse knowledge about the seasonal cycle of gel-forming marine microorganisms and their controlling factors we hypothesize that the seasonal distribution of DGR and more so MEV-events reflect the seasonal cycle of the gel-forming phytoplankton.
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-12-01
    Publishing country de
    Document type Book ; Online
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