Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6344150 | Atmospheric Research | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Dynamical behavior of atmospheric molecular clusters was investigated. A model was developed to describe the evolution, concentration and sources of atmospheric clusters. The model includes sources of monomers, monomer - i-mer collisions and evaporation of i-mers. The developed model is agile and flexible. The evaporation rate is shown to be most important parameter describing the growth of clusters. The existence of dimers, trimers and bigger i-mers depends mainly on evaporation rate. In practice, the evaporation rate should be smaller than 1 sâ 1 for atmospheric nucleation to occur.
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Authors
Markku Kulmala,