Topic
Aerosols research, explained
6 open-access aerosols studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Aerosol water alone cannot fix organic-aerosol bias
Adding aerosol liquid water to SOA partitioning without non-ideality overpredicts nighttime carbon; daytime OA in the southeast US still needs extra sources.
- Aerosols cut winter ozone but raise it in summer
Aerosol haze over China changes ozone in opposite directions in January and July by altering mixing and sunlight.
- How 1 km satellite maps show SE US PM2.5 fell
A two-stage MAIAC AOD model maps daily 1 km PM2.5 and shows about a 20% drop across the southeastern US from 2001 to 2010.
- When organics and inorganics share the same aerosol
SOAS thermodynamics match MARGA ammonium–sulfate data if models mix phases carefully and nonvolatile-cation emissions are revised.
- Why Tehran AOD and visibility move opposite seasons
Winter mountain trapping cuts visibility while column AOD is lowest; summer dust raises AOD even as surface visibility recovers.
- How North Atlantic aerosols steered Sahel rain
Fixing aerosols at 1920 levels removes the observed multidecadal Sahel drought–recovery cycle that tracks North Atlantic SST.