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Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture Anatoli Bogdan Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck Austria.

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1 Role of aqueous aerosol in the build up of large upper tropospheric moisture Anatoli Bogdan Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck Austria and Department of Physics, University of Helsinki Finland

2 Contents Introduction - observational data of UT moisture - water activity criterion Approaches for explanation of large UT moisture - cubic ice hypothesis - organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol - glassy organic (citric acid) aerosol - mixed-phase cirrus cloud particles

3 Observations of UT moisture

4 The warming is large at the upper troposphere in the tropics and the lower troposphere in the northern high latitude. http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Dep/cl/cl4/yosoku/yosoku-en.htm

5 Water activity criterion

6 Maximum RH i of aqueous aerosol droplets which is allowed by a water activity criterion (WAC).

7 Equilibrium partial pressures of the components of ideal and non-ideal binary solution as a function of the mole fraction X A. When X A → 1, we have a dilute solution of B in A. In this region the Raoult’s law p A = X A p* A is applied for A. In the region where X A → 0, we have the Raoult’s law p B = X B p* B for B component.

8 , Water activity may be approximated as

9 Cubic ice hypothesis

10 Hexagonal ice

11 The arrangement of water molecules in hexagonal ice

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13 Cubic ice Hexagonal ice lattice

14 Diffraction patterns from frozen emulsified droplets of 30 wt % HNO 3.

15 Ratio of vapor pressure of cubic and hexagonal ices

16 The hypotheses of organic coating around sulfuric acid aerosol

17 Organic coating of sulfuric acid aerosol

18 The hypotheses of concentrated glassy citric acid aerosol

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20 Calorimetric thermograms of emulsified 17 wt% H 2 SO 4 and 17/3 wt% H 2 SO 4 /HNO 3.

21 Complete and truncated thermograms of 20wt% H 2 SO 4.

22 16 Cooling Droplets are on hydrophobic surface. 50 μm

23 17 Cooling

24 18 Cooling

25 19 Cooling

26 20 Cooling

27 21 Cooling

28 22 Cooling

29 23 Cooling

30 39 Warming

31 40 Warming

32 41 Warming

33 42 Warming

34 43 Warming

35 44 Warming

36 45 Warming

37 46 Warming

38 47 Warming

39 48 Warming

40 49 Warming

41 50 Warming

42 51 Warming

43 52 Warming

44 54 Warming

45 55 Warming

46 56 Warming

47 57 Warming

48 58 Warming

49 62 Warming

50 65 Warming


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