Wintertime aerosol properties in Beijing

Aerosol Composition , Sources and Processes during Wintertime in Beijing , China

Hygroscopic growth of urban aerosol particles in Beijing (China) during wintertime: a comparison of three experimental methods

The hygroscopic properties of atmospheric aerosols are highly relevant for the quantification of radiative effects in the atmosphere, but also of interest for the assessment of particle health effects upon inhalation. This article reports measurements of aerosol particle hygroscopicity in the highly polluted urban atmosphere of Beijing, China in January 2005. The meteorological conditions corre...

Retrieval of Aerosol Properties for Fine/Coarse Mode Aerosol Mixtures over Beijing from PARASOL Measurements

Beijing is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world with relatively high aerosol loading. The population of Beijing is approximately 21.5 million based on statistics from 2014. In order to improve the air quality of Beijing by monitoring and better understanding of high aerosol loading at fine spatial resolution, an extended version of the Look Up Table (LUT) aerosol retrieval algorit...

Comparison between summertime and wintertime Arctic Ocean primary marine aerosol properties

Primary marine aerosols (PMAs) are an important source of cloud condensation nuclei, and one of the key elements of the remote marine radiative budget. Changes occurring in the rapidly warming Arctic, most importantly the decreasing sea ice extent, will alter PMA production and hence the Arctic climate through a set of feedback processes. In light of this, laboratory experiments with Arctic Oce...

In situ measurements of aerosol mass concentration and radiative properties in Xianghe, southeast of Beijing

[1] As a part of the EAST-AIRE study, Nuclepore filters were collected in two size ranges (coarse, 2.5 mm < d < 10 mm, and fine, d < 2.5 mm) from January to May 2005 in Xianghe, about 70 km southeast of Beijing, and analyzed for aerosol mass concentration, spectral absorption efficiency and absorption coefficient. Twelve-hour aerosol mass concentration measurements showed an average concentrati...