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Assessment of Hygroscopic Behavior of Arctic Aerosol by Contemporary Lidar and Radiosonde Observations

Remote Sensing, ISSN: 2072-4292, Vol: 16, Issue: 16
2024
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Reports from Alfred-Wegener-Institute Add New Data to Research in Remote Sensing (Assessment of Hygroscopic Behavior of Arctic Aerosol by Contemporary Lidar and Radiosonde Observations)

2024 SEP 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Tech Daily News -- New study results on remote sensing have been published.

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This study presents the hygroscopic properties of aerosols from the Arctic free troposphere by means of contemporary lidar and radiosonde observations only. It investigates the period from the Arctic Haze in spring towards the summer season in 2021. Therefore, a one-parameter growth curve model is applied to lidar data from the Koldewey Aerosol Raman Lidar (AWIPEV in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard) and simultaneous radiosonde measurements. Hygroscopic growth depends on different factors like aerosol diameter and chemical composition. To detangle this dependency, three trends in hygroscopicity are additionally investigated by classifying the aerosol first by its dry color ratio, and then by its season and altitude. Generally, we found a complex altitude dependence with the least hygroscopic particles in the middle of the troposphere. The most hygroscopic aerosol is located in the upper free troposphere. A hypothesis based on prior lifting of the particles is given. The expected trend with aerosol diameter is not observed, which draws attention to the complex dependence of hygroscopic growth on geographical region and altitude, and to the development of backscatter with the aerosol size itself. In a seasonal overview, two different modes of stronger or weaker hygroscopic particles are additionally observed. Furthermore, two special days are discussed using the Mie theory. They show, on the one hand, the complexity of analyzing hygroscopic growth by means of lidar data, but on the other hand, they demonstrate that it is in fact measurable with this approach. For these two case studies, we calculated that the aerosol effective radius increased from (Formula presented.) (dry) to (Formula presented.) (wet) and from (Formula presented.) to (Formula presented.) for the second case.

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