Meteorological Service of Canada Environment Canada The Global Cycling Of Size- distributed Sea-salt Particles And Their Influence On Sulphate Aerosols Sun Ling Gong 1 and Leonard A. Barrie 2 1 Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, CANADA 2 Environment Division, AREP, World Meteorological Organization, 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix, BP2300, 1211 Geneva 2 WMO
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Meteorological Service of CanadaEnvironment Canada
The Global Cycling Of Size-distributed Sea-salt Particles And
Their Influence On Sulphate Aerosols
Sun Ling Gong1 and Leonard A. Barrie2
1Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada,
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CAM: A Size Segregated Simulation of Atmospheric CAM: A Size Segregated Simulation of Atmospheric Aerosol Processes for Climate and Air Quality ModelsAerosol Processes for Climate and Air Quality Models
J. Geophy. Res. 2002 (in press)
1. Module Development
S.L. Gong1, L.A. Barrie2, J.-P. Blanchet3, K. von Salzen5, U. Lohmann4, G. Lesins4, L. Spacek3, L.M. Zhang1, E. Girard3, H. Lin1, R. Leaitch1, H. Leighton5, P. Chylek4 and P. Huang1
2. Global sea-salt aerosol and its budgets S.L. Gong1, L.A. Barrie2 and M. Lazare1
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Model Configurations – CAM/GCMModel Configurations – CAM/GCM
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Global Sea-salt Global Sea-salt Simulations Simulations and Budgetsand Budgets
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-0.3 -0.2 -0 .1 0. 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
MAM JJA
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Fraction
Surface Reduction of Sulphate by Sea-saltSurface Reduction of Sulphate by Sea-salt
-20~30%
-50~70%
-20~30%
Rosenfeld et al 2002, Science“Sea-salt cleans air pollution”
-10~20%
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Mechanisms of the Sea-salt Impact – (1)Mechanisms of the Sea-salt Impact – (1)
Cleaning Agents– Condensation of sulphuric acid vapour
onto existing sea-salt particles reduces the atmospheric sulphate cycling time and hence reduces the sulphate concentrations.
– Sea-salt aerosols override the precipitation suppression effects of the large number of small pollution nuclei.
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C a s e A
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Impact of Sea-Impact of Sea-salt on salt on Sulphate Sulphate Number Size Number Size Distributions Distributions
Sea-salt reduces the number concentration of sulphate by enhancing condensation and coagulations.
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0. 0 .1 0 .2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 m
Case B (w ith sea-salt)Case A (no sea-salt)
Mass-mean Diameters of Sulphate (MAM)Mass-mean Diameters of Sulphate (MAM)
Increases in MMD reduce the residence time and hence concentrations of sulphate.
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Mechanisms of the Sea-salt Impact – (2)Mechanisms of the Sea-salt Impact – (2)
Effects on Clouds– Sea-salt provides additional CCN for SO2 in-
cloud oxidation and hence increases the sulphate concentrations.
– An increase more than 20% in in-cloud sulphate production due to additional sea-salt particles and higher pH associated with newly formed sea-salt-nucleated cloud droplets compared to sulphate. [O’Dowd et al. 1997, Lowe et al. 1995]
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Sea-salt on cloud droplet numberSea-salt on cloud droplet number
[Pszenny et al 1998][Pszenny et al 1998][O’Dowd et al. 1999][O’Dowd et al. 1999][Rosenfeld et al 2002]
Sea-salt aerosols override the precipitation suppression effects of the large number of small pollution nuclei.
The enhancement in precipitation helps remove pollution.
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Changes of Sulphate MMR by Sea-saltChanges of Sulphate MMR by Sea-salt
10~20%
Competitive processes of sea-salt with positive and negative effects on sulphate.
Location dependent.
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ConclusionsConclusions
The global annual sea-salt emission to the atmosphere is about 1.01×1013 kg with 68% in the southern hemisphere.
Residence times of 7.7 m and 0.4 m diameter sea salt particles in the marine boundary layer were in the range 0.3 - 10 hours and 80 – 360 hours, respectively.
By serving as a quenching agent to nucleation and additional surface area for condensation, sea-salt aerosols increase the mass mean diameter of sulphate aerosols by a factor of 2 and reduce the global sulphate aerosol mass in the surface MBL layer from 5 to 75% for most of the open oceans.