Rapid sulfuric acid-dimethylamine nucleation enhanced by nitric acid in polluted regions.

ABSTRACT: Recent research [Wang et al., Nature 581, 184-189 (2020)] indicates nitric acid (NA) can participate in sulfuric acid (SA)-ammonia (NH3) nucleation in the clean and cold upper free troposphere, whereas NA exhibits no obvious effects at the boundary layer with relatively high temperatures. Herein, considering that an SA-dimethylamine (DMA) nucleation mechanism was detected in megacities [Yao et al., Science 361, 278-281 (2018)], the roles of NA in SA-DMA nucleation are investigated. Different from SA-NH3 nucleation, we found that NA can enhance SA-DMA-based particle formation rates in the polluted atmospheric boundary layer, such as Beijing in winter, with the enhancement up to 80-fold. Moreover, we found that NA can promote the number concentrations of nucleation clusters (up to 27-fold) a

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8536353 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature