ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-10-5625-2010 Hygroscopic properties of Amazonian biomass burning and European background HULIS and investigation of their effects on surface tension with two models linking H-TDMA to CCNC data Fors E. O. 1 Rissler J. 1 7 Massling A. 1 8 Svenningsson B. 1 Andreae M. O. 2 Dusek U. 2 9 Frank G. P. 2 10 Hoffer A. 2 11 Bilde M. 3 Kiss G. 4 Janitsek S. 4 Henning S. 5 Facchini M. C. 6 Decesari S. 6 Swietlicki E. 1 Lund University, Department of Physics, Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund, Sweden Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Biogeochemistry, Mainz, Germany University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry, Copenhagen, Denmark University of Pannonia, Air Chemistry Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém, Hungary Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Department of Physics, Leipzig, Germany Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima – CNR, Bologna, Italy now at: Lund University, Department of Design Sciences, Division of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Lund, Sweden now at: Aarhus University, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Atmospheric Environment, Roskilde, Denmark now at: Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands now at: Lund University, Department of Physics, Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund, Sweden now at: University of Pannonia, Air Chemistry Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém, Hungary 28 06 2010 10 12 5625 5639 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/10/5625/2010/acp-10-5625-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/5625/2010/acp-10-5625-2010.pdf

HUmic-LIke Substances (HULIS) have been identified as major contributors to the organic carbon in atmospheric aerosol. The term "HULIS" is used to describe the organic material found in aerosol particles that resembles the humic organic material in rivers and sea water and in soils. In this study, two sets of filter samples from atmospheric aerosols were collected at different sites. One set of samples was collected at the K-puszta rural site in Hungary, about 80 km SE of Budapest, and a second was collected at a site in Rondônia, Amazonia, Brazil, during the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia – Smoke Aerosols, Clouds, Rainfall and Climate (LBA-SMOCC) biomass burning season experiment. HULIS were extracted from the samples and their hygroscopic properties were studied using a Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (H-TDMA) at relative humidity (RH) <100%, and a cloud condensation nucleus counter (CCNC) at RH >100%. The H-TDMA measurements were carried out at a dry diameter of 100 nm and for RH ranging from 30 to 98%. At 90% RH the HULIS samples showed diameter growth factors between 1.04 and 1.07, reaching values of 1.4 at 98% RH. The cloud nucleating properties of the two sets of aerosol samples were analysed using two types of thermal static cloud condensation nucleus counters. Two different parameterization models were applied to investigate the potential effect of HULIS surface activity, both yielding similar results. For the K-puszta winter HULIS sample, the surface tension at the point of activation was estimated to be lowered by between 34% (47.7 mN/m) and 31% (50.3 mN/m) for dry sizes between 50 and 120 nm in comparison to pure water. A moderate lowering was also observed for the entire water soluble aerosol sample, including both organic and inorganic compounds, where the surface tension was decreased by between 2% (71.2 mN/m) and 13% (63.3 mN/m).

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