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The results of one-dimensional calculations of the height profiles of nucleated sulfate aerosol particles for the northern mid-latitudes and tropics in winter are presented. Numerical calculations were performed using a three-dimensional model of the transport and transformation of multicomponent gas and aerosol substances in the atmosphere, incorporating photochemistry, nucleation involving neutral molecules and ions, as well as condensation/evaporation and coagulation. It is found that the resulting dynamics of the formation of aerosol particle nuclei is not a simple sum of ion and binary (water vapor/sulfuric acid) nucleation rates. This dynamics is determined by the ratio of critical radii of nucleated particles due to binary and ion nucleation of these substances (rcr_bin and rcr_ion) depending on temperature, relative humidity, and ionization rate. This should be taken into account in modeling the gas and aerosol composition of the atmosphere and comparing calculated and observed data.
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The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project numbers 18-05-00289 and 19-05-50007 (Mikromir)), as well as by the governmental assignments of Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Talrose Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS (theme AAAA-0047-2018-0012).
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Aloyan, A.E., Yermakov, A.N. & Arutyunyan, V.O. The Role of Binary and Ion Nucleation of Sulfuric Acid and Water Vapor in the Dynamics of Sulfate Aerosol Formation in the Atmosphere. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 46, 37–42 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373921010052
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