Electrodynamic balance measurements of thermodynamic, kinetic, and optical aerosol properties inaccessible to bulk methods

Steimer, S. S.; Krieger, U. K.; Te, Y.-F.; Lienhard, D. M.; Huisman, A. J.; Luo, B. P.; Ammann, M.; Peter, T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2397-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 6

Research article

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08 Jun 2015

Research article |

| 08 Jun 2015

Electrodynamic balance measurements of thermodynamic, kinetic, and optical aerosol properties inaccessible to bulk methods

S. S. Steimer, U. K. Krieger, Y.-F. Te, D. M. Lienhard, A. J. Huisman, B. P. Luo, M. Ammann, and T. Peter

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RC C324: 'reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Mar 2015
- AC C736: 'Reply to referee #1', Ulrich Krieger, 20 Apr 2015
RC C352: 'Review of Steimer et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Mar 2015
- AC C749: 'Reply to referee #2', Ulrich Krieger, 20 Apr 2015
AC C903: 'Typo in Eq. (13) and (14)', Ulrich Krieger, 28 Apr 2015

Short summary

Atmospheric aerosol is often subject to supersaturated or supercooled conditions where bulk measurements are not possible. Here we demonstrate how measurements using single particle electrodynamic levitation combined with light scattering spectroscopy allow the retrieval of thermodynamic data, optical properties and water diffusivity of such metastable particles even when auxiliary bulk data are not available due to lack of sufficient amounts of sample.