ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-10-11471-2010 Irreversible loss of ice nucleation active sites in mineral dust particles caused by sulphuric acid condensation Sullivan R. C. 1 Petters M. D. 1 2 DeMott P. J. 1 Kreidenweis S. M. 1 Wex H. 3 Niedermeier D. 3 Hartmann S. 3 Clauss T. 3 Stratmann F. 3 Reitz P. 4 5 Schneider J. 4 Sierau B. 6 Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1371, USA Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland 03 12 2010 10 23 11471 11487 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/11471/2010/acp-10-11471-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/11471/2010/acp-10-11471-2010.pdf

During the FROST-2 (FReezing Of duST) measurement campaign conducted at the Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS), we investigated changes in the ice nucleation properties of 300 nm Arizona Test Dust mineral particles following thermochemical processing by varying amounts and combinations of exposure to sulphuric acid vapour, ammonia gas, water vapour, and heat. The processed particles' heterogeneous ice nucleation properties were determined in both the water subsaturated and supersaturated humidity regimes at −30 °C and −25 °C using Colorado State University's continuous flow diffusion chamber. The amount of sulphuric acid coating material was estimated by an aerosol mass spectrometer and from CCN-derived hygroscopicity measurements. The condensation of sulphuric acid decreased the dust particles' ice nucleation ability in proportion to the amount of sulphuric acid added. Heating the coated particles in a thermodenuder at 250 °C – intended to evaporate the sulphuric acid coating – reduced their freezing ability even further. We attribute this behaviour to accelerated acid digestion of ice active surface sites by heat. Exposing sulphuric acid coated dust to ammonia gas produced particles with similarly poor freezing potential; however a portion of their ice nucleation ability could be restored after heating in the thermodenuder. In no case did any combination of thermochemical treatments increase the ice nucleation ability of the coated mineral dust particles compared to unprocessed dust. These first measurements of the effect of identical chemical processing of dust particles on their ice nucleation ability under both water subsaturated and mixed-phase supersaturated cloud conditions revealed that ice nucleation was more sensitive to all coating treatments in the water subsaturated regime. The results clearly indicate irreversible impairment of ice nucleation activity in both regimes after condensation of concentrated sulphuric acid. This implies that the sulphuric acid coating caused permanent chemical and/or physical modification of the ice active surface sites; the possible dissolution of the coating during droplet activation did not restore all immersion/condensation-freezing ability.

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