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This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract Interactions of atmospheric aerosols with clouds influence cloud properties and modify the aerosol life cycle. Aerosol particles act as cloud condensation nuclei and ice nucleating particles or become incorporated into cloud droplets by scavenging. For an accurate description of aerosol scavenging and ice nucleation in contact mode, colli-5 sion efficiency between droplets and aerosol particles needs to be known. This study derives the collision rate from experimental contact freezing data obtained with the ETH Collision Ice Nucleation Chamber CLINCH. Freely falling 80 µm water droplets are exposed to an aerosol consisting of 200 nm diameter silver iodide particles of concentrations from 500–5000 cm −3 , which act as ice nucleating particles in contact mode. 10 The chamber is kept at ice saturation in the temperature range from 236–261 K leading to slow evaporation of water droplets giving rise to thermophoresis and diffusio-phoresis. Droplets and particles bear charges inducing electrophoresis. The experimentally derived collision efficiency of 0.13 is around one order of magnitude higher than theoretical formulations which include Brownian diffusion, impaction, interception, 15 thermophoretic, diffusiophoretic and electric forces. This discrepancy is most probably due to uncertainties and inaccuracies in the description of thermophoretic and diffusio-phoretic processes acting together. This is to the authors knowledge the first dataset of collision efficiencies acquired below 273 K. More such experiments with different droplet and particle diameters are needed to improve our understanding of collision 20 processes acting together.


Estimating collision efficiencies from contact freezing experiments
enging of particles in the air is one of the major processes by which the atmosphere is cleansed (Radke et al., 1980).Particles may be scavenged in-cloud and below-cloud due to collision with droplets (impaction scavenging) or by nucleation scavenging when they serve as CCN or INP (Leong et al., 1982).Below 273 K solid aerosol particles that activate to cloud droplets may induce droplet freezing in immersion mode when the temperature is further decreased.This freezing process is usually discriminated from condensation freezing, where CCN activation is immediately followed by ice formation.When interstitial aerosol particles collide with cloud droplets they may induce freezing in contact mode.This nucleation process deserves special attention, since it is reported to induce ice nucleation at higher temperature than when the same particle acts as INP in immersion or condensation mode (Durant and Shaw, 2005;Fornea et al., 2009;Ladino Moreno et al., 2013).In addition, the importance of contact nucleation for cloud glaciation also depends on the collision efficiency between aerosol and cloud droplets.
Collisions between particles and droplets can result from motion induced by turbulence and Brownian diffusion or as a result of external forces induced by gravity, electric charges, temperature or vapor gradients (Leong et al., 1982).There exist different formulations that describe collision efficiencies theoretically and give mathematical expressions for them (Slinn, 1983;Park et al., 2005;Andronache et al., 2006;Wang and Pruppacher, 1977).To validate theoretical calculations, laboratory studies have been carried out in which aerosols have been exposed to falling droplets (see Wang et al., 1978 andLadino et al., 2011b for references).Most of these studies have been performed at or close to room temperature with droplets of sizes that are typical for drizzle and rain drops rather than for cloud droplets.Measurements of pre-and post-rain aerosol concentrations have been used to quantify aerosol scavenging by precipitation (Davenport and Peters, 1978;Laakso et al., 2003;Chate and Pranesha, 2004;Maria and Russell, 2005).These studies often show too large washout compared with theoretical estimates based on formulations of collision efficiencies (Andronache et al., 2006).One reason for this might be an inaccurate representation of the collision pro-Figures

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Full cesses.Accurate estimates of collision efficiencies are also needed to describe cloud glaciation.Up to date, there is lack of atmospheric INP that might explain ice nucleation at temperatures higher than −15 • C. While biological particles are discussed as candidates to close this gap (DeMott et al., 2010), an alternative explanation would be ice nucleation in contact mode.Several field studies have observed that ice crystals preferentially formed in regions of downdrafts and at cloud edges where dry air is entrained (Young, 1974).Particles contained in these air masses could initiate droplet freezing when they collide with them.To judge the importance of this process nucleation and collision efficiencies have to be quantified.The representation of heterogeneous ice nucleation in most global models still lacks a detailed description of the freezing processes depending on aerosol properties and nucleation mode (Yun and Penner, 2012;Lohmann and Hoose, 2009).Depending on particle size and the forces acting on the particles, different collision processes have to be taken into account.In models, collision efficiencies are usually calculated as the sum of the different collision processes (Andronache et al., 2006;Bae et al., 2009;Croft et al., 2010) neglecting that the forces act together to determine the aerosol path either into or around the droplet.Trajectory calculations can be used to simulate the particle pathway, however, they need to be validated with reliable laboratory measurements (Tinsley and Leddon, 2013).Calculated collision efficiencies are quite accurate for Aitken and coarse mode particles, for which either Brownian diffusion or impaction dominates.Accumulation mode particles fall into the particle size range of the Greenfield gap (Greenfield, 1957;Seinfeld and Pandis, 2006;Ladino et al., 2011a), where Brownian diffusion and impaction are inefficient collision mechanisms.However, the collision efficiency minimum of the Greenfield gap is reduced in the presence of electric or phoretic forces and theoretical descriptions have to include the corresponding contributions to the collision efficiencies to give accurate values.Only few experimental studies have explored this part of the parameter space (Ladino et al., 2011a;Ladino, 2011) and none of them at mixed-phase cloud temperatures.Introduction

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Full The present study investigates collision efficiency of 200 nm diameter silver iodide (AgI) particles with 80 µm droplets at low temperatures.Droplets and particles bear charges giving rise to electric forces and droplets are slowly evaporating inducing thermophoretic and diffusiophoretic forces.This study therefore provides experimental data to validate theoretical formulations exactly in this least explored parameter space range.The paper is structured as follows: Sect. 2 presents theoretical formulations of collision efficiencies from the literature, Sects.3 and 4 describe the experimental procedure and the results.In Sects.5 and 6, the theoretical formulations are compared with experimental results and are critically discussed.Comparison with other experimental work is presented in Sect.6. Section 7 discusses improvements of theoretical formulations and atmospheric implications.

Collision efficiency
When a droplet falls through air, various processes can lead to the collision of aerosol particles with droplets.Theoretical formulations of these processes generally assume a flow around a spherical droplet capturing spherical particles.The collision efficiency (E ) is defined as the fraction of particles in the cylindrical volume swept out by a falling droplet that collide with the droplet.A collision efficiency of unity is realized when all the particles residing in the swept out volume of a droplet collide with the droplet.When the particles follow the air stream around the droplet, E is smaller than one.E can exceed unity when particles get scavenged by wake capture.The coalescence efficiency is defined as the fraction of particles that are retained by the droplet when they collide with them.The product of E and coalescence is called the collection efficiency.Normally, it is assumed that a collision leads to the scavenging of the particle by the droplet so that the collision efficiency and collection efficiency are the same.Different processes have to be considered that cause deviations of the particle's movement from the air stream Introduction

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Full path and lead to the collision of aerosols with droplets (Ladino et al., 2011b).For the smallest particles, Brownian diffusion is the most important collision process.Brownian diffusion describes the random motion of aerosol particles resulting from collisions with carrier gas molecules.It is a strong function of particle size being most important for small aerosol particles.Large particles are most efficiently scavenged by inertial interception and impaction.Inertial impaction occurs when a particle is unable to follow the streamlines around a falling droplet and, because of its inertia, continues to move toward the drop and is eventually captured by it (Seinfeld and Pandis, 2006).Interception takes place when a particle follows the streamlines around a falling droplet sufficiently close to collide with it.The region of low collision efficiency between the small and large aerosol particles is known as the Greenfield gap.This gap may at least be partly closed when electric and phoretic effects contribute to particle collisions.Thermophoresis describes a net transport of particles in the presence of a temperature gradient in the air.Air molecules at higher temperature have a higher mean velocity and therefore impart more momentum on a particle than colder ones.The momentum on the warmer side of the particle is therefore larger and moves particles from higher to lower temperatures.Since evaporation cools the droplets and induces a temperature gradient in the surrounding air, particles are attracted by droplets for RH < 100 % because of thermophoresis.Diffusiophoresis arises in the presence of a vapor concentration gradient.In the case of an evaporating droplet, there is a flux of water molecules away from the droplet, compensated by a flux of carrier gas molecules (mainly N 2 , O 2 ) in the opposite direction (Stephan flow) to keep the total pressure constant.These flows exert a repulsive force on the particle.Under typical atmospheric conditions thermophoresis dominates diffusiophoresis for aerosol particles < 1 µm (Slinn and Hales, 1971).Finally, in case of charged particles and droplets, electroscavenging has to be considered as an additional collision process.Usually, collision efficiencies of each of these processes are formulated separately and added together to yield the total collision efficiency E tot .Park et al. (2005) and Slinn (1983) proposed formulations for the collision efficiencies by Brownian diffusion (E Br ), interception (E int ), and impaction (E imp ).Andronache Introduction

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Full  (2006) gives formulations for thermophoresis (E Th ), diffusiophoresis (E Df ), and electrophoresis (E El ).Wang et al. (1978) use a flux model to calculate collision rate coefficients for electric and phoretic scavenging.In the following, we will outline the formulations proposed for the different collision processes.

Brownian diffusion, interception and impaction
In the approaches by Park et al. (2005), hereafter referred to as P05, and Slinn (1983), hereafter referred to as S83, collision efficiencies of Brownian diffusion, interception and impaction (E Br,I ) are provided.They are calculated separately and added together.

Formulation by Park (P05)
For collision efficiencies due to Brownian diffusion and interception Park et al. (2005) follow Jung and Lee (1998) who used a resolved flow field around a system consisting of multiple spheres to obtain an analytical solution including the effects of induced internal circulation inside a liquid droplet.Due to the influence of the internal flow, the outer flow velocity around the fluid spheres becomes larger than that around solid spheres.For this reason, the streamlines pass around a fluid sphere more closely than around a solid sphere.The collision efficiency due to Brownian diffusion is taken from Park et al. (2005):

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Full where α is the packing density i.e. the water volume present in a unit volume of air and σ the viscosity ratio of water to air.The hydrodynamic factors J and K are given as and P e is the Peclet number defined as the ratio between the advective and diffusive transport rate and is given as where D d is the droplet diameter, U(D d ) is the terminal velocity of the drop and D diff the diffusion coefficient of aerosol particles given by where k B is the Boltzmann constant, T a is the air temperature in K, µ a is the dynamic viscosity of air and C c (d p ) is the Cunningham slip correction factor to account for noncontinuum effects associated with small particles.It is given as (Ladino et al., 2011a) where λ a is the mean free path of air molecules.The temperature dependent viscosity of air µ a is taken from the parametrization in Pruppacher and Klett (1997).In poise units it is given as

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Full where T c is the temperature in • C. For the viscosity of water the lowest measured value at 273 K is used (1.787 × 10 −3 kg m −1 s −1 ).
According to Jung and Lee (1998) the collision efficiency due to interception E int is given as where R is the diameter ratio between particle and droplet . The collision efficiency due to impaction E imp is given as where Stk is the Stokes number and ρ p is the density of the particles.Slinn (1983) proposed formulations for E Br , E int and E imp using dimensional analysis coupled with experimental data which are summarized in Seinfeld and Pandis (2006).Based on Slinn (1983), the following formulations are given in Seinfeld and Pandis Introduction

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Full where ρ w and ρ p are densities of liquid water and particles respectively.The normalizing factor ρ w ρ p is necessary to account for aerosol particles with density > 1000 kg m −3 .Re is the Reynolds number representing the ratio of inertial to viscous forces in the flow and given by Pruppacher and Klett (1997).
where Y is where X = ln(CdRe 2 ) and CdRe 2 is given as where ρ a is the density of air, g is the acceleration due to gravity.Sc is the Schmidt U(D d ) and u(d p ) are the terminal velocities of the droplets and aerosol particles, respectively.The relaxation time τ is given as (Wang et al., 2010), St * is the critical Stokes number above which particles may be deposited on the droplet.Note that S83 uses a slightly different formula for the Stokes number (St) than P05 (Stk).In the formulation for E imp given in Eq. ( 7) collision can happen only when St > St * .The critical Stokes number is given as

Phoretic forces
Since inside the collision chamber, the droplets are evaporating, thermo-and diffusiophoretic forces also contribute to the collision efficiency.Electroscavenging has to be taken into account because particles and droplets are charged.We consider the formulations of Andronache (2004); Andronache et al. (2006), hereafter referred to as A06, where collision efficiencies are calculated separately and added together to obtain the total collision efficiency due to phoretic forces E ph where E Th , E Df and E El are the collision efficiencies due to thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis and electrophoresis, respectively.Introduction

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Formulation by Andronache (A06)
The contribution of thermophoresis to the collision efficiency is given as (Andronache et al., 2006) where T a is the absolute temperature of air, T s is the absolute temperature at the droplet surface and P r the Prandtl number for air given as γ is given as where k a and k p are the thermal conductivities of the air and the aerosol particles, p is the atmospheric pressure and C p is the specific heat of air at constant pressure.The diffusiophoretic contribution to collision efficiency is given as where

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Full The Schmidt number for water vapor in air is given as where D w is the diffusivity of water vapor in air.For evaporating droplets, the diffusiophoretic contribution to E is negative.In the formulation by Andronache et al. (2006), the contribution of electric charge to the scavenging efficiency is based on Coulomb interactions between aerosol particles and droplets carrying point charges of opposite sign, leading to the capture of particles present on the streamline close to the droplet surface.The expression for this electrostatic collision efficiency is given as (Andronache, 2004;Davenport and Peters, 1978) where K = 9 × 10 9 N m 2 C −2 , Q and q are the mean charges on the droplet and the aerosol particle in Coulomb units.

The flux model (W78)
An alternative formulation for phoretic and electrostatic forces is given by the flux model (Wang et al., 1978), hereafter referred to as W78.It expresses the thermophoretic force F Th as (Tinsley et al., 2006)

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Full temperature of the surrounding (T a ) and at the droplet surface (T s ), assuming spherical symmetry.The diffusiophoretic force can be expressed as (Tinsley et al., 2006) The last term in this expression is the gradient in water vapor density.M a and M w are the molecular weights of air and water, ρ ν,a and ρ ν,s are the water vapor densities in the air far from the droplet and at the droplet surface, respectively.The parameter α is given as (Wang et al., 1978) The formulation of the forces is strictly valid only for spherically symmetric inverse square fields.This is the case for stationary droplets.If the droplet moves, the temperature and vapor fields are not spherically symmetric.As a first order correction, mean heat and vapor ventilation coefficients f h and f v , respectively, can be introduced to account for the effect of air motion on the flux of heat and water vapor (Tinsley, 2010).With this correction, the forces may be expressed as where C Th and C Df are inverse square force constants for thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis, C Th = f h F Th r 2 and C Df = f v F Df r 2 .The inverse square force constants C for the thermophoretic force and the diffusiophoretic force can be formulated as (Wang et al., 1978) If electric forces are approximated by inverse square forces (repulsive for like charges, attractive for unlike charges and neglecting image charges), the inverse square force constant for electrical forces is (Tinsley, 2010) Using the relationship between collision efficiency and collision kernel, an effective collision efficiency can be derived from the forces.The collsion kernel K for each force constant C can be calculated as (Ladino et al., 2011b) where B p is the mobility of particles.From the collision kernel, the different collision efficiencies for each mechanism can be calculated using the relationship 3 Experimental setup

Instrumentation
Our collision nucleation chamber (CLINCH) is similar to the one used by Ladino et al. (2011b) for contact freezing studies with some modifications to observe the frozen fraction of droplets at different times.It is a continuous flow chamber which consists of two parallel plates separated by 1 cm width with side windows for the detector.Both chamber walls are held at the same temperature and are covered with ice, leading to an environment that is saturated with respect to ice and subsaturated with respect to 12181 Introduction

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Full water.Relative humidity in the chamber depends on the chamber temperature.The droplet generator from Bremen University is placed at the center top of the chamber.
The droplet generator contains a piezo element which can produce 80 µm diameter droplets with a frequency of 100 droplets per second (Ulmke et al., 2001).With this setting the distance between two successive droplets is about 2 mm when the droplet acquires its terminal velocity of 0.182 m s −1 .The droplets are generated with pure water (Milli-Q, 18.2 MΩ) at a temperature of 281 K.The relaxation time for a droplet to reach its terminal velocity is 0.2 s and the temperature relaxation time is about 0.6 s when the chamber is kept at 235 K. Aerosol particles enter the chamber at the top in an air flow from both sides and can interact with the liquid droplets while passing through the chamber.The flow through the chamber is laminar and should not show any turbulence.The terminal velocity of the AgI aerosol is too low to contribute to the flow velocity.The fall velocity of the aerosol particles is therefore taken as the flow velocity averaged over the whole cross section of the chamber, which equals 0.017 m s −1 for an air flow of 1 liter per minute through the chamber.In CLINCH, aerosol particles and cloud droplets can collide leading to freezing of the cloud droplets via contact freezing.With the modified setup, it is possible to observe the frozen fraction of droplets at lengths of 40 and 80 cm.The residence time of droplets at these two lengths are 2 and 4 s respectively.Since the droplets have to cool down to the chamber temperature after injection, the residence time at the desired temperature is shorter.In the case of the lowest investigated temperature of 235 K it is reduced to 1. flow velocity at the center of the chamber (0.024 ms −1 ) using the formula by Rogers (1988) neglecting the temperature gradient term.The Reynolds number of the air flow is calculated to be 12 and the droplets Reynolds numbers are about 0.65 which ensures that the chamber flow is not turbulent.With such conditions inside the chamber, the relative humidity around the column of droplets will increase only slightly due to evaporation of droplets.Our calculations show that this increase is < 1 % and too small to trigger deposition nucleation on the aerosol particles.Stetzer et al. (2008) showed that deposition nucleation on silver iodide particles can take place only when the relative humidity with respect to ice is larger than 105 %.

Aerosol preparation
Silver iodide particles were produced by mixing of 0.1 M potassium iodide and 0.1 M silver nitrate solutions.10 mL of the potassium iodide solution was diluted with 80 mL distilled water and 10 mL of the silver nitrate solution were added.The AgI precipitate was then decanted to 40 and 60 mL distilled water was added to the solution.From this solution aerosol particles were produced by atomizing.The particles were then dried to RH < 10 % at room temperature.These dried particles passed through a mixing volume to obtain a relatively constant concentration of particles.At the exit of the mixing volume, a cyclone with 1 µm cutoff size was used and the particles were then passed to the Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA).The particles have a charge of 1e after the size selection by the DMA which was operated at 1 liter outflow and 10 liter sheath flow air.
Selected 200 nm diameter particles were passed to the chamber via a concentration control system in order to select a particular concentration of particles.The aerosol concentration was measured at the end of the chamber with a CPC.

Charge measurement
The droplets obtain a variable number of charges when the stream of droplets is injected from the droplet generator and the charge can be measured with various meth-Introduction

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Full ods.We chose to determine the charge by passing the droplet stream through a capacitor consisting of two parallel plates which were connected to a DC voltage supply.The droplet generator was placed exactly at the top edge of the plates.These two plates were kept at 6 mm distance from each other and a DC voltage was applied.Due to the presence of the charge on the droplets, the droplets were either deflected toward the positively or negatively charged plate.Multiple measurements were performed at different times in order to obtain the average charge on the particles.The charge on the droplets varied from 0.16 fC (1000 e) to 80 fC (50 000 e).The charge on the droplet remained the same once the droplet generator was turned on but could shift to a different value when the droplet stream was turned off and turned on again.The mean charge on the droplets was about 65 fC (39 000 e ± 20 000 e).

Experimental procedure
The collision ice nucleation experiments were conducted at temperatures between 261 and 236 K. Initially the chamber was evacuated for 5 min and then cooled to 258 K. To cover the walls with a thin layer of ice the chamber was filled with distilled water for 10 s and then flushed out.The chamber was again evacuated for 3 min and the detector was mounted.When the desired temperature of the chamber was reached, the droplet generator was turned on and droplets were observed in the detector.This blank experiment without aerosol particles was performed at each temperature in order to ensure that there is no droplet freezing without particles.After the blank experiments, the aerosol flow was turned on and the actual experiment was performed.After completing the experiment for one temperature, the temperature of the chamber was lowered in steps of 2 to 3 K until the homogeneous freezing temperature was reached.Introduction

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Full  (Lüönd et al., 2010).As the chamber temperature was decreased the frozen fraction started to rise and after reaching a certain value it remained constant.The frozen fraction plateau is reached at about 245 K.A frozen fraction of 1 is not reached even for the lowest investigated temperature of 238 K.According to classical nucleation theory, homogeneous nucleation becomes effective only for T < 238 K (e.g.Ickes et al., 2014).We assume that for T < 245 K heterogeneous freezing on AgI particles is so efficient that each collision of a particle with a droplet leads to the immediate freezing of the droplet (freezing efficiency of 1) and the frozen fraction plateau is reached.For T > 245 K, the probability of droplet freezing is < 1, and the collision of a particle with a droplet does not necessarily induce freezing.For T < 245 K, frozen fractions increase with increasing particle concentration from 500 to 5000 cm −3 without reaching a value of 1 and they are higher for 4 s residence time than for 2 s residence time.This is in accordance with immediate contact freezing once the droplet has collected a particle.This limits the contact freezing by the probability that a droplet actually captures a particle while it is falling through the chamber.If the freezing probability for T < 245 K is assumed to be 1, this temperature range can be used to deduce collision efficiencies from our experimental data.We therefore define data points that correspond to unity freezing probability and use them to derive experimental collision efficiencies.where K geo is the geometrical area swept out by the droplet per unit time t.C par is the particle concentration and E exp is the collision efficiency that fits to the experimental results best.Since the collision efficiency should be the same for all concentrations and not depend on residence time, E exp was determined by simultaneously minimizing the difference between the mean values of frozen fraction indicated by the symbols in Fig. 2 and the frozen fraction calculated with Eq. ( 19).This yielded a value of E exp = 0.13 in reasonable agreement with all data points taking experimental uncertainties into account.To show the sensitivity of the frozen fraction to the assumed collision efficiency, curves for E = 0.02 (according to Fig. 6) are also given in Fig. 2 (as dashed lines).

Comparison of the different formulations of collision efficiency
To compare the experimentally derived collision efficiency of E = 0.13 with total collision efficiencies calculated with the theoretical expressions of Sect.2, we will calculate collision efficiencies for an AgI aerosol by water droplets falling through the 80 cm CLINCH chamber which is held at ice saturation at 261 K. Temperature and vapor pressure gradients between the droplet surface and the surrounding are calculated as well as the slow evaporation of the droplet along its path through the chamber in time increments of 0.01 s.Mean collision efficiencies for the whole chamber length are obtained by averaging over the individual 0.01 s increments.In this simulation, the droplet has a diameter of 80 µm when it enters the chamber and shrinks to 79 µm at the end of the chamber.This slow evaporation induces a temperature gradient between the surrounding and the droplet (T a − T s = 0.3 K) leading to thermophoresis.AgI particles have a density of 5600 kg m −3 and one elemental charge since they passed through a DMA for size selection.Major uncertainties are associated with the charge of the droplets.
For the calculations shown in Fig. 3, a charge of 50 000 e of opposite sign to that of the particles was assumed.Figure 3a shows the collision efficiencies of Brownian diffusion, interception and impaction for the formulations P05 described in Sect.2.2.1 and S83 Introduction

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Full described in Sect.2.2.2.The formulations for Brownian diffusion and interception by P05 and S83 show a very similar particle size dependence, but the values using S83 are by about a factor of three higher for E Br and even an order of magnitude higher for E int .While the formulations of P05 are derived theoretically from a resolved flow field, S83 used dimensional analysis coupled with experimental results.Although the formulation of P05 takes the increased collision efficiency for a flow around a liquid droplet compared with a flow around a solid sphere explicitly into account, it yields lower collision efficiencies than the one by S83.The formulation of S83 crucially depends on the accuracy of the experiments forming the basis for the dimensional analysis.E imp using S83 drops off to zero for a particle diameter d p < 2 µm because of the critical Stokes number in the formulation of impaction below which the impaction of particles on droplets is zero.For particles smaller than 0.1 µm, Brownian diffusion is the most dominant mechanism and for particles above 1 µm diameter, impaction dominates for the formulation of P05.For the 200 nm particles used in our experiments the collision efficiency by Brownian diffusion is by more than an order of magnitude more efficient than interception and impaction.Figure 3b shows the collision efficiencies due to individual contributions for thermophoresis and electrophoresis.Diffusiophoresis results in a repulsive force rendering the collision efficiency negative for the formulation of A06 (≈ −10 −4 ) and too small to be represented in Fig. 3 using W78 (≈ 10 −28 ).While collision efficiencies by electrophoresis are almost identical, considerable differences for thermophoresis in particle size dependence can be found comparing the formulations A06 and W78.A06 predicts a decrease of collision efficiency for increasing particle size whereas W78 shows hardly any dependence on aerosol particle diameter.The expression by W78 is formulated for the slip regime (Kn < 0.1) and applies to larger particles (Leong et al., 1982).The expression of A06 applies to the free molecular regime (Kn > 10) and small particles (Slinn and Hales, 1971).Electrophoresis contributes the most for the smallest of the aerosol particles i.e. between the range of 1 nm to 0.1 µm diameter.Introduction

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Temperature dependence of thermophoretic collision efficiency
Figure 4a shows the dependence of the collision efficiency due to thermophoresis for T = 263, 248 and 233 K, keeping the other parameters the same as used for Fig. 3.As the temperature decreases the effect of thermophoresis also decreases because the evaporation rate of the droplet decreases and therefore also the temperature gradient decreases.On the other hand, the collision efficiency by thermophoresis is also influenced by the decreasing relative humidity with decreasing temperature from 90.6 % at 263 K to 78.2 % at 248 K and finally to 67.8 % at 233 K because the chamber is kept at ice saturation conditions.To take apart the influence of temperature and relative humidity, Fig. 4b shows the dependence of thermophoresis on temperature keeping the environmental relative humidity with respect to water at 90 %.In addition to that, curves T = 298 K are also shown as dash dotted lines for a better comparison with other studies.The temperature dependence of W78 is much stronger than the one of A06.Since for our experimental settings, diffusiophoresis results in a repulsive force rendering the collision efficiency negative or zero, we do not show here the temperature dependence of diffusiophoresis.The combined description of thermophoretic and diffusiophoretic forces indicate that for our experimental conditions of evaporating droplets in the presence of rather small aerosol particles, thermophoresis should exceed diffusiophoresis (Slinn and Hales, 1971).However, disagreement still exists between experiments and model predictions concerning the prevalent forces as a function of particle radius (Santachiara et al., 2012;Prodi et al., 2014).

Charge dependence of electrophoresis
Figure 5 shows the droplet charge dependence of electroscavenging for the formulations of A06 and W78.Calculations are shown for droplet charges of 5000, 10 000, and 50 000 e and a particle charge of 1 e.All other parameters are the same as for ficiencies with increasing droplet charge and decreasing particle size.If the charges of droplets and particles were of the same sign, particles would be repulsed from the droplets and the collision efficiency would be effectively zero, since the formulations of A06 and W78 both assume point charges located in the middle of the particles and droplets and do not take into account image charge effects.When aerosol particles come close enough to water droplets, image charges on the conducting droplets can lead to attraction even if the charges on the particle and on the droplet are of the same sign (Tinsley et al., 2000).When the radial component of the flow carries the particle towards the droplet as fast as the particle is repulsed, then the particle will pass through the distance of maximum repulsion and in most cases collide with the droplet, as the image forces increase very rapidly at close distance.Tinsley et al. (2000) show in their Fig.5c and d, that for particles with diameters > 500 nm and charges of 5-500 e electroscavenging by droplets with 84 µm diameter and a charge of 500 e does not depend on whether the charges of droplets and particles are of the same or opposite sign.Particles with diameters < 200 nm are strongly repulsed from the droplets when their charge is of the same sign as the droplet charge and strongly attracted when the charges are of opposite sign.For particles with diameters of 200 nm, collision efficiencies are by a factor of 2 larger in case of opposite sign than in case of same sign.Also for our experimental situation image charges will diminish the difference between electroscavenging between particles and droplets of like and opposite charges.However, the effect might be smaller because the AgI particles carry only one elementary charge resulting in a smaller image force compared to the situation shown in Tinsley et al. (2000), and the droplets are highly charged, increasing the radius of repulsion that has to be overcome until attractive image forces set in.

The total collision efficiency E Tot
Figure 6 shows the total collision efficiency for different combinations of the theoretical formulations for the same experimental conditions as in Fig. 3.All combinations of collision efficiencies are dominated by electrophoresis for particle diameters < 100 nm and 12189 Introduction

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Full by impaction for diameters > 2 µm.In this range Brownian diffusion, electrophoresis and thermophoresis contribute significantly to the total collision efficiency.For 200 nm particles, the total collision efficiency is lowest (0.01) for the combination P05 and A06 and highest (0.02) for the combination S83 and W78.In our approach total collision efficiencies are obtained by adding up collision efficiencies of the different processes with values ≥ 0. Negative collision efficiencies were not considered since they lack physical meaning.In trajectory calculations (Tinsley, 2010;Tinsley and Leddon, 2013) the simultaneous action of the different forces on the particle can be investigated.These calculations show that e.g. for small particles, the total collision efficiency can be lower than the one by Brownian diffusion alone when Brownian diffusion is diverted by repulsion of particles carrying charges of the same sign as the droplet (Tinsley et al., 2006).

Comparison with previous experimental work
A direct comparison of our experimental results with other measurements of collision efficiencies is not possible because collision efficiency is sensitive to many parameters, which are only partly the same in different experiments.Important parameters that determine the collision efficiency are droplet and particle sizes, charges on droplets and particles, relative humidity and temperature.Laboratory studies summarized by Wang and Pruppacher (1977) and Ladino et al. (2011b) have all been performed at or close to room temperature.In a critical review, Wang and Pruppacher (1977) criticize most older studies for insufficient control of relative humidity, insufficient control or knowledge of charges on droplets and particles, and the use of large droplets so that the terminal velocity is not reached during the experiment.In the following, the relevant studies to compare with our data are summarized.Lai et al. (1978) investigated collection efficiency of AgCl aerosol particles by freely falling water droplets in nitrogen.For 300, 500, and 900 nm diameter particles scavenged by 1.24 mm diameter droplets, they measured collection efficiencies of 0.107, 0.016 and 0.045, respectively.These results Introduction

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Full are in agreement with ours considering the larger particle and droplet sizes employed by Lai et al. (1978).When 1.24 mm diameter droplets were charged with surface charge densities of −0.7 × 10 10 to −3.0 × 10 10 C cm −2 and +0.8 × 10 10 to +3.1 × 10 10 C cm −2 , the collection efficiency for 480 nm diameter particles increased from 0.017 to 0.023-0.067irrespective of the sign of the charge.This increase illustrates the effect of image charge that is also expected to influence our collision efficiencies.Byrne and Jennings (1993) and Barlow and Latham (1983) obtained collision efficiencies in reasonable agreement with Lai et al. (1978) for similar experimental conditions.Radke et al. (1980) performed airborne measurements of aerosol size distributions before and after rain or snow showers in aged air masses and found good agreement with theoretical calculations for particles ≥ 1 µm in diameter, where inertial impaction dominates scavenging.
For the submicron aerosol particles the Greenfield gap was narrower than predicted by theory.Measured scavenging collection efficiencies ranged typically from 0.1-0.7 for 200 nm diameter particles which is in general agreement with our results, and dropped to < 0.05 in the size range 400-1000 nm.Beard (1974) determined collection efficiencies of uncharged 700-900 nm diameter particles with 0.40-0.85mm diameter droplets with charges of 10 −5 , 10 −4 , and 10 −3 esu (1-100 fC) at 99 % RH and a temperature of 24 • C.They found increasing collection efficiencies with increasing droplet charge of 0.5×10 −4 -3.7×10 −4 for 10 −5 esu, 2.3×10 −4 -11.6×10 −4 for 10 −4 esu, and 12.2×10 in the experiment of Wang and Pruppacher (1977).Ladino et al. (2011b) determined collision efficiencies for aerosol particles scavenged by cloud droplets in CLINCH using 26 µm diameter droplets.They exposed freely falling water droplets at 298 K and 90 % RH to an aerosol consisting of lithium metaborate particles with diameters between 0.1 and 0.66 µm and observed collision efficiencies between E = 0.08-1.75.E tot > 1 are obtained because of the high efficiency of Brownian diffusion for small particles.
Figure 7 shows that their experimental results are in general agreement with the theoretical predictions.Ardon-Dryer et al. (2015) determined collision efficiencies between Polystyrene Latex Spheres (PSL) with radii from 0.125-0.475nm and 43 µm diameter droplets charged with 400 ± 40 e.Collision efficiencies ranged from 5.7 × 10 −3 to 8.6 × 10 −3 for RH = 15 % and from 6.4 × 10 −3 to 2.2 × 10 −2 at 88 % RH.These values are lower than the ones reached in this study which may be explained by the lower charge on the PSL spheres.

Discrepancies between theoretical and experimentally derived collision efficiencies
The experimentally derived collision efficiencies are almost one order of magnitude higher than the theoretical ones.It is unlikely that the experimentally derived ones are by this amount too high.The assumption that every collision leads to droplet freezing can only result in too high collision efficiencies.A conceivable process that would result in an overestimation of the collision efficiency could be that droplet freezing would influence the velocity of the droplets in such a way that frozen droplets collide with liquid ones.However, considering the sequence of frozen and liquid droplets, such a bias does not seem to exists.Brownian diffusion is the main collision mechanism for small particles in the absence of charges and one of the dominating contributions to the total collision efficiencies for the 200 nm diameter particles investigated in this Figures

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Full study.The formulation of S83 predicts higher collision efficiencies than the one of P05 for Brownian diffusion and combinations with S83 for total collision efficiencies yield higher values.However, it is unlikely that uncertainties in the theoretical formulations of this process can account for the total discrepancy between experimentally derived and calculated collision efficiencies.Contributions of impaction and interception to total collision efficiencies are more than one order of magnitude lower than the one of Brownian diffusion and therefore uncertainties in these formulations are not likely to fill the gap between experimentally derived and calculated collision efficiencies.The assumption that the charge on the droplet is 50 000 e and of opposite sign to the one on the particles results in the highest expected value for collision efficiencies due to electric force.Accounting for image forces would only increase collision efficiencies in the case of same charges on particles and droplets.The processes with the highest uncertainties are the ones arising from thermophoretic and diffusiophoretic forces.While diffusiophoresis leads to a repulsive force and does not contribute to the total collision efficiencies under our experimental conditions of evaporating droplets, thermophoresis is attractive and a dominating contribution.In the combined treatment of electrical, thermophoretic and diffusiophoretic forces, collection efficiencies can be lower than when efficiencies are treated separately and added up.In trajectory calculations (Zhou et al., 2009) Brownian motion, electrical and phoretic processes are treated together.Since the diffusiophoretic force of an evaporating droplet is repulsive it can counteract attraction by thermophoresis and Brownian motion.A study on the simultaneous effect of phoretic processes performed by Slinn and Hales (1971) showed that thermophoresis dominates diffusiophoresis for evaporating droplets in quasi-steady state conditions for vapor diffusion and heat conduction.Similarly, the same charges on particles and droplets will divert particles away from the droplets at distances where mirror charges are too weak to lead to attraction and decrease the collision efficiency (Tinsley et al., 2000).For the calculation of collision efficiencies spherical particle shapes have been assumed.This assumption is valid for liquid or glassy particles but not for solid ones, which have complex morphology with significant deviations from sphericity.The drag Introduction

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Full on a nonspherical particle depends on its orientation, which in turn is affected by shear in the flow field.Leong et al. (1985) estimated in a theoretical study the effects of oblate and prolate particle rotation in shear flow and shape dependency of the thermophoretic force of evaporating 30 µm radius droplets.The results indicate that the orientation effects of the shear flow will tend to decrease the thermophoretic force on the particle toward the drop surface in the size regime where phoresis dominates beacuse the non spherical particle aligns along the streamlines and the velocity component of the phorestic force is minimized.Foss et al. (1989) investigated the collection of uncharged prolate spheroidal aerosol particles by 30 µm radius collector droplets.They found that such particles can be captured on the downstream side of the collector in the absence of attractive forces in contrast to the case of spherical particles.In the case of prolate spheroidal aerosol particles collected by charged 30 µm radius droplets, the collision efficiencies for particles having large aspect ratios are significantly lower than those for spherical particles when the Coulomb force is dominant.These studies indicate that deviations from particle sphericity rather decrease collision efficiencies for the experimental conditions of our study and cannot account for the discrepancy between measured and calculated collision efficiencies.The largest uncertainties are associated with the theoretical description of phoretic processes at low temperatures.It might be necessary to re-assess these to obtain expressions that are in better agreement with experiments.

Implications for contact freezing
The efficiency of contact freezing depends on the efficiency of the collision process and the ability of the particle to act as INP.The most important heterogeneous ice nuclei identified in the atmosphere so far are mineral dusts.Size distributions of mineral dusts depend on the age of the air mass because larger particles are removed by gravitational settling.Mineral dust particles cover a large size range from 0.1 to 100 µm (Tegen and Schepanski, 2009;Maring et al., 2003).In the coupled aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM, which was used to investigate heterogeneous contact and immersion 12194 Introduction

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Full freezing, the mineral dust aerosol is represented by two lognormal modes with massmedian radii of 0.37 and 1.75 µm (Lohmann and Diehl, 2006;Hoose et al., 2008).Small particles collide with droplets mainly due to Brownian diffusion, large ones due to impaction.The predicted number of collisions varies by up to a factor of three for Brownian diffusion and impaction depending on the mathematical formulation that one chooses.
Most importantly, in the highly relevant size range for ice nucleation on mineral dusts from 0.5-2 µm, calculated collision efficiencies are strongly reduced when a critical Stokes number is included in the formulation for impaction.In updrafts within clouds a slight supersaturation typically persists, directing particles away from droplets due to thermophoresis which is only partly compensated by attraction due to diffusiophoresis.
In downdrafts or when dry air is entrained in clouds, droplet evaporation mostly occurs at cloud top and close to the edges of cumuli, which is the region where first ice in clouds is indeed observed (Young, 1974).Under such conditions, thermophoresis leads to attraction and may contribute significantly to the collision efficiency in the size range 0.1-2 µm.The two formulations for thermophoresis are very different in terms of particle size and temperature dependence.This term has to be re-assessed to improve estimates of contact nucleation in models.In addition electric force act on the particles which may significantly contribute to the overall collision efficiency.Evaporating cloud droplets and aerosol particles released from evaporated droplets from the same region of the cloud are supposed to have like charges (Tinsley and Leddon, 2013).For particles of sizes that act as INP such as mineral dusts, the predominant effect of their charge, irrespective of sign, is an increase in the collision rate due to the short-range electrical image-charge attraction (Tinsley and Leddon, 2013).Layer clouds such as stratocumulus and altostratus are weakly electrified producing droplet charges in the consequent gradients of electric field of the order of 100 e on 20 µm diameter cloud droplets (Zhou et al., 2009).Thunderstorm clouds are strongly electrified (Tinsley and Leddon, 2013) with cloud droplets bearing elementary charges in the range of 10 000-100 000 e. Taking the effect of image charges into account will therefore increase the collision rate of particles with droplets even more.In summary, the collision efficiency Introduction

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Full of mineral dust particles with cloud droplets is most probably underpredicted in state of the art aerosol-climate models leading to an underestimation of the relevance of contact nucleation especially in evaporating clouds.

Implications for atmospheric aerosol scavenging
Impaction scavenging of aerosol particles can occur in cloud and below cloud.Belowcloud scavenging leads to the removal of aerosol particles from the atmosphere between cloud base and ground due to precipitation.In addition to impaction scavenging, in-cloud scavenging includes also contributions from nucleation scavenging (Seinfeld and Pandis, 2006).Aerosol scavenging is usually described by the scavenging coefficient (s −1 ) defined as the rate of aerosol removal (Chate et al., 2011).In field measurements, the scavenging coefficient is usually calculated from measurements of the change in aerosol size distribution with rainfall (Santachiara et al., 2012).For very small and very large particles, there is mainly an agreement with theoretical studies.However, theoretical parameterizations often underestimate observed scavenging coefficients by one to two orders of magnitude for particles in the 0.2-2 µm diameter range, where collection efficiencies are lowest.Theoretical models predict Brownian diffusion as the dominating scavenging process of particles with diameters < 0.2 µm, and inertial impaction as the main scavenging process for diameters > 2 µm.For aerosol scavenging in the particle diameter range of 0.2-2 µm, contributions from electric and phoretic forces are thought to be important.In the case of thermal equilibrium between the drop and the environment and water vapor evaporation or condensation is the only factor determining the temperature gradient, thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis are supposed to act in opposite directions.However, in rain events, falling raindrops can have a different temperature from that of the ambient air and diffusiophoretic and thermophoretic forces will reinforce each other (Santachiara et al., 2012).Many theoretical studies on scavenging do not take phoretic forces into account, but even those which do are not able to explain the discrepancies between field and observed scavenging coefficients in the Greenfield gap (Santachiara et al., 2012).Most model parameterizations treat 12196 Introduction

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Full the collision processes separately and either assume that they act in series (Davenport and Peters, 1978) or calculate the total collision efficiency as the sum of individual collision efficiencies (Bae et al., 2009;Andronache et al., 2006).With this approach, the net effect of repulsive and attractive contributions of forces acting on particles cannot be taken into account correctly.Figures 3b and 4 show that the collision efficiency formulations of thermophoresis of W78 and A06 are vastly different.They are derived for large and small particles, respectively, but in most studies applied to the whole simulated particle size range.Moreover, the temperature dependency of the formulations by A06 and W78 are very different indicating also here large uncertainties.From this, it can be concluded that phoretic forces give important contributions to scavenging of aerosol particles in the accumulation mode, but are most probably also the main source of uncertainties in aerosol scavenging predictions.

Summary and conclusions
This study uses contact freezing experiments of freely falling 80 µm diameter droplets exposed to an aerosol consisting of 200 nm diameter silver iodide particles.The chamber is kept at ice saturation in the temperature range from 236-261 K leading to slow evaporation of water droplets giving rise to thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis.Droplets and particles bear charges inducing electrophoresis.From the experimental results, a collision efficiency of 0.13 is deduced.It is compared with theoretical formulations which yield values from 0.01-0.02.Brownian diffusion, electrophoresis and thermophoresis contribute the most to these values.Most experimental parameters are well constrained or show little sensitivity with respect to the resulting collision efficencies and can therefore not account for the observed discrepancies.More importantly, comparisons of different theoretical formulations show considerable differences.There are large differences between the formulations for thermophoresis from A06 and W78 regarding size and temperature dependence.Calculated collision efficiencies for impaction in the size range from 0.5-2 µm strongly depend on whether a critical Stokes Introduction

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Full number is assumed.The temperature dependence of W78 is much larger than the one of A06.For our experimental conditions, diffusiophoresis results in a repulsive force and does not contribute to the total collision efficiency.It can be expected that in a combined treatment of the forces acting on particles, the calculated total collision efficiency would even be lower.Collision efficiencies are important parameters needed to correctly represent contact freezing and aerosol scavenging in models.Thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis are supposed to give important contributions to scavenging of aerosol particles in the accumulation mode, but are most probably also main sources of uncertainties in aerosol scavenging predictions.
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zurich Switzerland 2 Marcolli Chemistry and Physics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland 1 Introduction Interactions of atmospheric aerosols with clouds influence the cloud properties and modify the aerosol life cycle.Depending on particle size, morphology and chemical composition, aerosol particles act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nucleating particles (INP) or become incorporated into cloud droplets by scavenging.Scav-Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | et al.
Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper |(2006) andWang et al. (2010) number of aerosol particles, St is the particle Stokes number given as St = 2τ(U(D d ) − u(d p )) Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Screen / Esc Printer-friendly Version Interactive Discussion Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | 4 and 3.4 s for chamber lengths of 40 and 80 cm.At the end of the chamber, a Condensation Particle Counter (CPC, TSI 3772) is connected to measure the concentration of the aerosol particles.In order to discriminate between water droplets and ice crystals, an in-house developed Ice Optical Detector (IODE) (Nicolet et al., 2010) was used.In order to avoid the presence of two droplets simultaneously in the laser beam, a new laser was installed (402 nm, Schaefter + Kirchhoff laser Makroliniengenerator13 LTM) providing a rectangular instead of a circular laser beam.The fall velocity of the droplets is 0.210 m s −1 calculated as the sum of the terminal velocity of the droplets (0.1860 m s −1 ) and the Introduction Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper |

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Figure1shows the frozen fraction of droplets as a function of temperature for the investigated concentrations of the 200 nm silver iodide particles and residence times of 2 s (panel a) and 4 s (panel b).Error bars shown represent an uncertainty in the frozen fraction due to the classification (liquid or ice) uncertainty originating from the measurement errors of the IODE detector(Lüönd et al., 2010).As the chamber temperature was decreased the frozen fraction started to rise and after reaching a certain value it remained constant.The frozen fraction plateau is reached at about 245 K.A frozen fraction of 1 is not reached even for the lowest investigated temperature of 238 K.According to classical nucleation theory, homogeneous nucleation becomes effective only These points are indicated by open symbols in black rectangles in Fig. 1. Figure 2, shows the evolution of the frozen fraction as a function of the residence time in the chamber calculated as FF = 1 − e −E exp K geo C par t (19Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper |

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Fig. 3. Charges on droplets and particles are of opposite sign.Both formulations show the same charge and particle size dependence with a strong increase of collision ef- Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | 10 −3 esu, illustrating again the influence of image charge.Their considerably lower values compared with ours can be partly ascribed to the larger particle and droplet sizes and partly to the absence of phoretic forces.The increase of collection efficiency due to phoretic forces can be seen comparing with the results from Lai et al. (1978) performed at low RH, which are two orders of magnitude larger for similar particle and droplet sizes.Wang and Pruppacher (1977) determined collection efficiencies for 500 nm diameter indium acetylacetonate particles collected by water droplets at 23 % RH and 22 • C.They observed for 340 µm diameter droplets with charges of 1.2 × 10 −3 esu (15 e) a collection efficiency of 1.8 × 10 −2 .The lower value compared with ours can be explained by the larger particle and droplet size and the lower charge Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | For ice nucleation in contact mode an accurate description of collision efficiencies below 273 K are needed.Ice nucleating particles are most probably in the accumulation mode size range.For this size range collection efficiencies are lowest and associated with the largest uncertainties.More experimental data of collision efficiencies especially at low temperatures are needed to validate theoretical formulations.This is to the authors knowledge the first dataset of collision efficiencies acquired below 273 K.More such experiments with different particle diameters are needed to improve the understanding of collision efficiencies.Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper |

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Figure 3. Calculated collision efficiency for a droplet of 80 µm diameter as a function of aerosol particle diameter at a temperature of 261 K and ice saturation.The contributions of Brownian motion, interception and impaction are shown in (a) for the formulations by Park et al. (2005) (P05) and Slinn (1983) (S83).The contributions for thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis and electrophoresis are shown in (b) for the formulations by Andronache et al. (2006) (A06) and Wang et al. (1978) (W78).The gray vertical line indicates the 200 nm diameter particles used in the experiments.

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List of symbols.Br Collision efficiency due to Brownian diffusion E int Collision efficiency due to interception E imp Collision efficiency due to impaction E Th Collision efficiency due to thermophoresis E