Ubiquitous nature of ambient metastable aerosol

MJ Rood, MA Shaw, TV Larson, DS Covert - Nature, 1989 - nature.com
The potential for atmospheric aerosol particles to exist as metastable aqueous droplets
instead of in their thermodynamically favoured crystalline solid phase has many implications …

An amorphous solid state of biogenic secondary organic aerosol particles

A Virtanen, J Joutsensaari, T Koop, J Kannosto… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles are formed in the atmosphere from condensable
oxidation products of anthropogenic and biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) …

[HTML][HTML] Clouds without supersaturation

M Kulmala, A Laaksonen, R J. Charlson, P Korhonen - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Traditional Köhler theory describes the equilibrium vapour-pressure relationship between
liquid solution particles and humid air. Here we present the concept of multiphase …

A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system

YJ Kaufman, D Tanré, O Boucher - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Anthropogenic aerosols are intricately linked to the climate system and to the hydrologic
cycle. The net effect of aerosols is to cool the climate system by reflecting sunlight …

Cloud albedo enhancement by surface-active organic solutes in growing droplets

MC Facchini, M Mircea, S Fuzzi, RJ Charlson - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Understanding the properties of clouds in the Earth's atmosphere is currently limited by
difficulties at the fundamental level of adequately describing the processes of cloud droplet …

Formation of atmospheric particles from organic acids produced by forests

IG Kavouras, N Mihalopoulos, EG Stephanou - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Aerosol formation in the atmosphere is an important process to understand, in that such
particles may act as the cloud condensation nuclei responsible for the 'cloud–climate'effect …

Atmospheric particles from organic vapours

CD O'Dowd, P Aalto, K Hmeri, M Kulmala, T Hoffmann - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Aerosol particles produced over forested areas may affect climate by acting as nuclei for
cloud condensation, but their composition (and hence the chemical species that drive their …

Surface tension prevails over solute effect in organic-influenced cloud droplet activation

J Ovadnevaite, A Zuend, A Laaksonen, KJ Sanchez… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The spontaneous growth of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) into cloud droplets under
supersaturated water vapour conditions is described by classic Köhler theory,. This …

Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future

MO Andreae, CD Jones, PM Cox - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Atmospheric aerosols counteract the warming effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases
by an uncertain, but potentially large, amount. This in turn leads to large uncertainties in the …

Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect

JE Penner, X Dong, Y Chen - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Anthropogenic aerosols enhance cloud reflectivity by increasing the number concentration
of cloud droplets, leading to a cooling effect on climate known as the indirect aerosol effect …