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A Review on Laboratory Studies and Field Measurements of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Its Parameterization Based on Oxidation Levels

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Purpose of Review

The study of organic aerosol hygroscopic growth and cloud droplet activation is crucial for accurately quantifying their climate and environmental impacts. However, the physical mechanisms behind organic aerosol hygroscopicity variations are not well understood. In this review, we summarized laboratory and field measurements of the organic aerosol hygroscopicity parameter κOA, discussed the physical understanding of why κOA was generally positively correlated with organic aerosol oxidation level, summarized proposed κOA parameterization schemes, and examined possible explanations for the marked differences among these parameterization schemes.

Recent Findings

Recent findings challenged the general cognition that cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity of secondary organic aerosol depended largely on solubility, showing it to be mainly controlled by molecular weight, yet the universality of this finding needs to be further examined. It was found that carbon chain length and functional groups had significant impacts on κOA and additional parameters other than O/C ratio need to be included when parameterizing κOA of multifunctional compounds, which is typically the case for ambient atmospheric aerosols. Additionally, laboratory results of secondary organic aerosol suggest that κOA might be highly RH-dependent under sub-saturated conditions, especially for biogenic secondary organic aerosols.

Summary

This review summarized laboratory and field measurements of atmospheric organic aerosol hygroscopicity parameter κOA and its parameterization schemes. The results demonstrate that representing κOA with a single oxidation level parameter still bears large uncertainty, and physical mechanisms associated with hygroscopic growth and cloud activation processes of organic aerosol still remain unresolved and need further investigation.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41805109), Special Fund Project for Science and Technology Innovation Strategy of Guangdong Province (Grant No.2019B121205004).

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    Ye Kuang, Jiangchuan Tao, Nan Ma & Min Shao

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Kuang, Y., Xu, W., Tao, J. et al. A Review on Laboratory Studies and Field Measurements of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Its Parameterization Based on Oxidation Levels. Curr Pollution Rep 6, 410–424 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-020-00164-2

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