An improved parameterization for sulfuric acid-water nucleation rates for tropospheric and stratospheric conditions

By H. Vehkamäki, Markku Kulmala, I. Napari, K. Lehtinen, C. Timmreck, M. Noppel, Ari Laaksonen. 2002

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. John A. Ogren
2. S. Schwartz

In Atmospheric Science

1. Markku Kulmala
2. Steven Ghan
3. Ulrike Lohmann
4. P. Stier
5. Fangqun Yu
6. Xiaohong Liu
7. K. Carslaw
8. K. Lehtinen

In Environmental Chemistry

1. Henrik Svensmark
2. Michael Schulz
3. Stefan Rahmstorf

Citations in the corpus

• SALSA – a Sectional Aerosol module for Large Scale Applications (2007, background): “The “real” nucleation rate in equation (1) can be calculated in the default model setup using description for binary nucleation (Vehkamäki et al., 2002), ternary nucleation (Napari et al.”
• Aerosol nucleation and its role for clouds and Earth's radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2010, methodology): “(2006) together with neutral nucleation of sulfuric acid and water ( Vehkam̈aki et al., 2002) in the ECHAM5-HAM model ( Stier et al.”
• Multicomponent aerosol dynamics model UHMA: model development and validation (2004, background): “The formation rate of critical clusters, along with their size and number of constituent molecules, arises as an output from recently revised binary (Vehkamäki et al., 2002) and ternary nucleation (Napari et al.”
• Uncertainty in global CCN concentrations from uncertain aerosol nucleation and primary emission rates (2008, methodology): “The effect of reducing the Vehkamäki et al. (2002) nucleation rates by a factor of ten has only a minor effect on the CCN(0.2”
• Experimental evidence for the role of ions in particle nucleation under atmospheric conditions (2007, methodology): “This is based on the parametrization in Vehkamäki et al. (2002) and an estimate of the mole fraction of H2SO4 to be 0.2 (Seinfeld & Pandis 1998, p. 527).”
• Aerosol Properties and Processes: A Path from Field and Laboratory Measurements to Global Climate Models (2007, methodology): “New particle formation will be introduced as a source of aerosol number, probably using a parameterization of binary nucleation of water and sulfuric acid vapor (Jaecker-Voirol and Mirabel 1989; Harrington and Kreidenweiss 1998; Vehkamäki et al. 2002).”
• The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2004, background): “Wilson et al. (2001) represent the size-distribution in a multicomponent aerosol model by a superposition of eight partly interacting lognormal modes.”
• Intercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol microphysical properties among AeroCom models of a range of complexity (2014, background): “References for nucleation parametrisations are V02 (Vehkamaki et al., 2002), S06 (Sihto et al.”
• Impact of nucleation on global CCN (2009, methodology): “Another BHN parameterization by Vehkamäki et al. (2002) is also applied in the uncertainty analysis and produces somewhat higher nucleation rates in the upper troposphere than Kulmala et al. (1998).”