Biogenic Potassium Salt Particles as Seeds for Secondary Organic Aerosol in the Amazon

Author:

Pöhlker Christopher1,Wiedemann Kenia T.234,Sinha Bärbel56,Shiraiwa Manabu17,Gunthe Sachin S.18,Smith Mackenzie3,Su Hang1,Artaxo Paulo2,Chen Qi3,Cheng Yafang1,Elbert Wolfgang1,Gilles Mary K.9,Kilcoyne Arthur L. D.10,Moffet Ryan C.811,Weigand Markus12,Martin Scot T.3,Pöschl Ulrich1,Andreae Meinrat O.1

Affiliation:

1. Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz 55020, Germany.

2. Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-900, Brazil.

3. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

4. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

5. Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz 55020, Germany.

6. Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Manauli PO, India.

7. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

8. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.

9. Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

10. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

11. Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA.

12. Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart 70569, Germany.

Abstract

Salty Origins of Fresh Water Cloud droplets above the Amazonian rain forest form mostly around organic aerosols, but the source of the aerosols has been a mystery. Pöhlker et al. (p. 1075 ) report that particles rich in potassium salts emitted by Amazonian vegetation can act as the seeds for the growth of organic aerosol particles that function as condensation nuclei for water droplets. These specks of biogenic salts provide a surface for the condensation of low- or semi-volatile organic compounds formed by the atmospheric oxidation of isoprene and terpenes, molecules produced in great abundance by many kinds of Amazonian plants.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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