The effect of organic coating on the heterogeneous ice nucleation efficiency of mineral dust aerosols
By O. Möhler, S. Benz, Harald Saathoff, M. Schnaiter, Richard H. Wagner, J. Schneider, S. Walter, Volker Ebert, S. Wagner. 2008
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The effect of organic coating on the heterogeneous ice nucleation (IN) efficiency of dust particles was investigated at simulated cirrus cloud conditions in the AIDA cloud chamber of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Arizona test dust (ATD) and the clay mineral illite were used as surrogates for atmospheric dust aerosols. The dry dust samples were dispersed into a 3.7 m3 aerosol vessel and either directly transferred into the 84 m3 cloud simulation chamber or coated before with the semi-volatile products from the reaction of α-pinene with ozone in order to mimic the coating of atmospheric dust particles with secondary organic aerosol (SOA) substances. The ice-active fraction was measured in AIDA expansion cooling experiments as a function of the relative humidity with respect to ice, RHi, in the temperature range from 205 to 210 K. Almost all uncoated dust particles with diameters between 0.1 and 1.0 µm acted as efficient deposition mode ice nuclei at RHi between 105 and 120%. This high ice nucleation efficiency was markedly suppressed by coating with SOA. About 20% of the ATD particles coated with a SOA mass fraction of 17 wt% were ice-active at RHi between 115 and 130%, and only 10% of the illite particles coated with an SOA mass fraction of 41 wt% were ice-active at RHi between 160 and 170%. Only a minor fraction of pure SOA particles were ice-active at RHi between 150 and 190%. Strong IN activation of SOA particles was observed only at RHi above 200%, which is clearly above water saturation at the given temperature. The IN suppression and the shift of the heterogeneous IN onset to higher RHi seem to depend on the coating thickness or the fractional surface coverage of the mineral particles. The results indicate that the heterogeneous ice nucleation potential of atmospheric mineral particles may also be suppressed if they are coated with secondary organics.
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change
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- Ice nuclei emissions from biomass burning (2009, background): “…carbon has been suggested to reduce heterogeneous ice nucleation ability of soot [Möhler et al., 2005] and mineral dust particles [Koehler, 2007; Möhler et al., 2008] at T < 40 C. Finally, modified combustion efficiency (MCE) is larger for samples that did nucleate ice than in the group that…”
- Deactivation of ice nuclei due to atmospherically relevant surface coatings (2009, methodology): “Möhler et al (2008) similarly found that organic coatings required an increase in RHi from 10 to 50% between −68 and −73 ◦C depending on thickness.”
- The deposition ice nucleation and immersion freezing potential of amorphous secondary organic aerosol: Pathways for ice and mixed‐phase cloud formation (2012, background): “ation efficiency of SOA particles over a more limited range of conditions [Wagner et al., 2007; Prenni et al., 2009b; Möhler et al., 2008].”
- Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields (2012, background): “A representative example is a recent study where the ice nucleation potential of mineral particles was observed to be substantially suppressed if they were coated with secondary organics (Möhler et al., 2008).”
- Ice supersaturations and cirrus cloud crystal numbers (2008, background): “Ice nucleation experiments at the AIDA chamber with soot and mineral dust particles containing organic material show that the heterogeneous freezing process of these particles is hindered (Möhler et al., 2005b, 2008).”
- Improvements to an Empirical Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation and Its Comparison with Observations (2013, background): “At colder temperatures, nucleation of ice by depositionmode is inhibited by soluble coatings (e.g., Cziczo et al. 2009; Eastwood et al. 2009; Möhler et al. 2008; Sullivan et al. 2010a,b).”