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Biogenic Aerosols - Effects on Clouds and Climate: FIGAERO-ToF-CIMS Instrument in Hyytiala with AMF-2

1 April 2014 - 1 June 2014

Lead Scientist: Joel Thornton

Observatory: amf, tmp

The ultimate goal of this work was to connect field and laboratory observations of organic aerosol chemical and physical properties during the nascent growth stage to the diurnal and vertical distributions of aerosol abundance measured over the boreal forest by the ARM Mobile Facility 2 (AMF-2) during the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate field campaign. The collaborators were Tuukka Petäjä and Mikael Ehn at the University of Helsinki. The project produced three outcomes: 1) molecular composition of the dominant condensing organic vapors during new particle formation events in the boreal forest which can be used with AMF-2 Aerosol Observing System measurements of cloud nuclei concentrations and hygroscopicity to develop robust parameterizations connecting biogenic emissions to climate relevant aerosol properties, 2) evaporation timescales of the organic aerosol components which are critical for assessing the fate of newly formed particle mass upon dilution, mixing and transport from source regions to cloud level, and 3) use of a 1-D column model to connect vertically varying biogenic emissions, oxidation rates, and aerosol formation and mixing to the vertically resolved measurements of aerosol loading provided by the AMF-2.

Co-Investigators

Tuukka Petaja

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Related Publications

2021

Kedzuf N, J Chiu, V Chandrasekar, S Biswas, S Joshil, Y Lu, P van Leeuwen, C Westbrook, Y Blanchard, and S O'Shea. 2021. "Retrieving microphysical properties of concurrent pristine ice and snow using polarimetric radar observations." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14(10), 10.5194/amt-14-6885-2021.

2020

Thornton J, C Mohr, S Schobesberger, E D’Ambro, B Lee, and F Lopez-Hilfiker. 2020. "Evaluating Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with a Combined Molecular Composition and Volatility Framework Using the Filter Inlet for Gases and Aerosols (FIGAERO)." Accounts of Chemical Research, 53(8), 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00259.

Lee B, E D’Ambro, F Lopez-Hilfiker, S Schobesberger, C Mohr, M Zawadowicz, J Liu, J Shilling, W Hu, B Palm, J Jimenez, L Hao, A Virtanen, H Zhang, A Goldstein, H Pye, and J Thornton. 2020. "Resolving Ambient Organic Aerosol Formation and Aging Pathways with Simultaneous Molecular Composition and Volatility Observations." ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 4(3), 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00302.

2019

Mohr C, J Thornton, A Heitto, F Lopez-Hilfiker, A Lutz, I Riipinen, J Hong, N Donahue, M Hallquist, T Petäjä, M Kulmala, and T Yli-Juuti. 2019. "Molecular identification of organic vapors driving atmospheric nanoparticle growth." Nature Communications, 10(1), 4442, 10.1038/s41467-019-12473-2.
Research Highlight

2018

D’Ambro E, S Schobesberger, R Zaveri, J Shilling, B Lee, F Lopez-Hilfiker, C Mohr, and J Thornton. 2018. "Isothermal Evaporation of α-Pinene Ozonolysis SOA: Volatility, Phase State, and Oligomeric Composition." ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2(10), 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00084.

2017

Mohr C, F Lopez-Hilfiker, T Yli-Juuti, A Heitto, A Lutz, M Hallquist, E D'Ambro, M Rissanen, L Hao, S Schobesberger, M Kulmala, R Mauldin, U Makkonen, M Sipilä, T Petäjä, and J Thornton. 2017. "Ambient observations of dimers from terpene oxidation in the gas phase: Implications for new particle formation and growth." Geophysical Research Letters, 44(6), 10.1002/2017GL072718.

2016

Petäjä T, EJ O'Connor, D Moisseev, VA Sinclair, AJ Manninen, R Väänänen, A von Lerber, JA Thornton, W Petersen, V Chandrasekar, JN Smith, PM Winkler, O Krüger, H Hakola, H Timonen, D Brus, T Laurila, E Asmi, M Riekkola, L Mona, P Massoli, R Engelmann, M Komppula, J Wang, C Kuang, J Bäck, V Annele, J Levula, M Ritsche, and N Hickmon. 2016. "BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(10), 10.1175/bams-d-14-00199.1.

Thornton J. 2016. Sources, Composition, and Properties of Newly Formed and Regional Organic Aerosol in a Boreal Forest during the Biogenic Aerosol: Effects on Clouds and Climate Field Campaign Report. Ed. by Robert Stafford, DIE ARM Climate Research Facility. DOE/SC-ARM-14-045. 10.2172/1254333.

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Campaign Data Sets

IOP Participant	Data Source Name	Final Data
Joel Thornton	Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer	Order Data

TMP Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOS`	Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`AOSMET`	Meteorological Measurements associated with the Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`ASSIST`	Atmospheric Sounder Spectrometer for Infrared Spectral Technology	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CEILPBLHT`	Boundary-layer height data with CEIL	Browse Data
`CPC`	Condensation Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`ECMWFDIAG`	European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Diagnostic Analyses	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`HSRL`	High Spectral Resolution Lidar	Browse Data
`HTDMA`	Humidified Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer	Browse Data
`INTERPSONDE`	Interpolated Sonde	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`KASACR`	Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`KAZR`	Ka ARM Zenith Radar	Browse Data
`KAZRARSCL`	Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) product using Ka-band ARM Zenith Radars	Browse Data
`KAZRCOR`	KAZR Corrected Data	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MWACR`	Marine W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWR3C`	Microwave Radiometer, 3 Channel	Browse Data
`NEPHELOMETER`	Nephelometer	Browse Data
`OZONE`	Ozone Monitor	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`PSAP`	Particle Soot Absorption Photometer	Browse Data
`RAIN`	Rain Gauge	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SACRADVVAD`	SACR Advance Velocity Azimuth Display	Browse Data
`SACRCOR`	Scanning ARM Cloud Radar Corrections	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEPARAM`	convective parameters derived from radiosonde data	Browse Data
`TSI`	Total Sky Imager	Browse Data
`VDIS`	Video Disdrometer	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WACRARSCL`	W-band Cloud Radar Active Remote Sensing of Cloud	Browse Data
`XSACR`	X-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data