To test their effect
on aerosol nucleation, Kirkby's team fired beams similar to cosmic rays through the chamber and found it increased nucleation between 2 and 10 times.
Not exact matches
Subsequently we will investigate the effects of these vapours
on the
nucleation and growth of
aerosols.
Prior to the publication of the
aerosol nucleation results from the CLOUD experiment at CERN in Nature several weeks ago Kirkby et al, 2011, I was asked by Nature Geoscience to write a «News and Views»
on the CLOUD results for a general science audience.
Regarding the CERN / CLOUD results suggesting an
aerosol nucleation link with cosmic - rays, I was wondering why the focus is always
on clouds?
Perhaps surprisingly, the key innovation in this experimental set up is not the presence of the controllable ionisation source (from the Proton Synchrotron accelerator), but rather the state - of - the - art instrumentation of the chamber that has allowed them to see in unprecedented detail what is going
on in the
aerosol nucleation process (this is according to a couple of
aerosol people I've spoken about this with).
It has been hypothesized that galactic cosmic rays (GCR) create atmospheric ions which facilitates
aerosol nucleation and new particle formation with a further impact
on the cloud formation (Kazil et al., 2012; Pierce and Adams, 2009).
In the article «Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements,» sciencemag.org, 49 authors concluded «Atmospheric
aerosol nucleation has been studied for over 20 years, but the difficulty of performing laboratory
nucleation - rate measurements close to atmospheric conditions means that global model simulations have not been directly based
on experimental data.....
Heterogeneous ice
nucleation on atmospheric
aerosols: a review of results from laboratory experiments / C. Hoose & O. Mohler Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research — Atmospheric
Aerosol Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany / Published: 29 October 2012 Abstract: A small subset of the atmospheric aerosol population has the ability to induce ice formation at conditions under which ice would not form without them (heteroge - neous ice nucle
Aerosol Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany / Published: 29 October 2012 Abstract: A small subset of the atmospheric
aerosol population has the ability to induce ice formation at conditions under which ice would not form without them (heteroge - neous ice nucle
aerosol population has the ability to induce ice formation at conditions under which ice would not form without them (heteroge - neous ice
nucleation).
Subsequently we will investigate the effects of these vapours
on the
nucleation and growth of
aerosols.