Effects of marine organic aerosols as sources of immersion-mode ice-nucleating particles on high-latitude mixed-phase clouds
Abstract
Mixed-phase clouds are frequently observed in high-latitude regions and have important impacts on the surface energy budget and regional climate. Marine organic aerosol (MOA), a natural source of aerosol emitted over ~70 % of Earth's surface, may significantly modify the properties and radiative forcing of mixed-phase clouds. However, the relative importance of MOA as a source of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in comparison to mineral dust, and MOA's effects as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and INPs on mixed-phase clouds are still open questions. In this study, we implement MOA as a new aerosol species into the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6), the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), and allow the treatment of aerosol–cloud interactions of MOA via droplet activation and ice nucleation. CAM6 reproduces observed seasonal cycles of marine organic matter at Mace Head and Amsterdam Island when the MOA fraction of sea spray aerosol in the model is assumed to depend on sea spray biology but fails when this fraction is assumed to be constant. Model results indicate that marine INPs dominate primary ice nucleation below 400 hPa over the Southern Ocean and Arctic boundary layer, while dust INPs are more abundant elsewhere.more »
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- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
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- 1769367
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- OSTI ID: 1769293; OSTI ID: 1784561; OSTI ID: 1869226
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- PNNL-SA-154775
Journal ID: ISSN 1680-7324
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- AC05-76RL01830; SC0020510
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- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)
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- Journal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1680-7324
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- Copernicus Publications, EGU
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- United States
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- English
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Community Earth System Model (CESM); Ice nucleating particles; sea spray aerosol; sea spray organic matter; OCEANFILMS; cloud phase
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Zhao, Xi, Liu, Xiaohong, Burrows, Susannah M., and Shi, Yang. Effects of marine organic aerosols as sources of immersion-mode ice-nucleating particles on high-latitude mixed-phase clouds. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.5194/acp-21-2305-2021.
Zhao, Xi, Liu, Xiaohong, Burrows, Susannah M., & Shi, Yang. Effects of marine organic aerosols as sources of immersion-mode ice-nucleating particles on high-latitude mixed-phase clouds. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2305-2021
Zhao, Xi, Liu, Xiaohong, Burrows, Susannah M., and Shi, Yang. Wed .
"Effects of marine organic aerosols as sources of immersion-mode ice-nucleating particles on high-latitude mixed-phase clouds". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2305-2021. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1769367.
@article{osti_1769367,
title = {Effects of marine organic aerosols as sources of immersion-mode ice-nucleating particles on high-latitude mixed-phase clouds},
author = {Zhao, Xi and Liu, Xiaohong and Burrows, Susannah M. and Shi, Yang},
abstractNote = {Mixed-phase clouds are frequently observed in high-latitude regions and have important impacts on the surface energy budget and regional climate. Marine organic aerosol (MOA), a natural source of aerosol emitted over ~70 % of Earth's surface, may significantly modify the properties and radiative forcing of mixed-phase clouds. However, the relative importance of MOA as a source of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in comparison to mineral dust, and MOA's effects as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and INPs on mixed-phase clouds are still open questions. In this study, we implement MOA as a new aerosol species into the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6), the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), and allow the treatment of aerosol–cloud interactions of MOA via droplet activation and ice nucleation. CAM6 reproduces observed seasonal cycles of marine organic matter at Mace Head and Amsterdam Island when the MOA fraction of sea spray aerosol in the model is assumed to depend on sea spray biology but fails when this fraction is assumed to be constant. Model results indicate that marine INPs dominate primary ice nucleation below 400 hPa over the Southern Ocean and Arctic boundary layer, while dust INPs are more abundant elsewhere. By acting as CCN, MOA exerts a shortwave cloud forcing change of –2.78 W m–2 over the Southern Ocean in the austral summer. By acting as INPs, MOA enhances the longwave cloud forcing by 0.35 W m–2 over the Southern Ocean in the austral winter. The annual global mean net cloud forcing changes due to CCN and INPs of MOA are –0.35 and 0.016 W m–2, respectively. Here, these findings highlight the vital importance for Earth system models to consider MOA as an important aerosol species for the interactions of biogeochemistry, hydrological cycle, and climate change.},
doi = {10.5194/acp-21-2305-2021},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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