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Atmosphere: Finding the missing particles

2015-05-13 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: For the past 20 years, a large portion of the particles measured in the atmosphere were missing from models. At best, models were able to explain one-tenth of the carbon-rich secondary organic aerosols, or SOA, measured in the air. The problem turned out to be a series of fundamental assumptions used in the models due to a lack of experimental data. The models assumed the particles were liquids that responded to changes in the surrounding atmosphere by rapid condensation or evaporation and in-particle...

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