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Rapid growth and high cloud forming potential of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol during the Covid lockdown in India: Changes in the production and properties of cloud con-densation nuclei (CCN) during heavily polluted compared to relatively cleaner conditions

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Pöhlker,  Mira L.
Multiphase Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Andreae,  Meinrat O.
Multiphase Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Pöschl,  Ulrich
Multiphase Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Su,  Hang
Multiphase Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Singh, A., Raj, S. S., Panda, U., Kommula, S., Jose, C., Liu, T., et al. (2022). Rapid growth and high cloud forming potential of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol during the Covid lockdown in India: Changes in the production and properties of cloud con-densation nuclei (CCN) during heavily polluted compared to relatively cleaner conditions. ESS Open Archive, 10512121.1. doi:10.1002/essoar.10512121.1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-3EB5-2
Abstract
Covid lockdown presented an important opportunity to study relatively cleaner conditions in India. The complex factors of power production, industry, and transportation could be more carefully dissected because of the extreme reduction in the influence of the latter two emission sources. Measurements of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity and other chemical properties of atmospheric aerosols showed that newly formed aerosol particles were produced in the SO2 plume from a large coal-fired power plant, contrary to normal conditions of heavy pollution. The sulfate-rich particles had high CCN activity and number concentration, indicating high cloud-forming potential. Examining the sensitivity of CCN properties under relatively clean conditions over India provides important new constraints on the perturbations of past and future climate forcing by anthropogenic emissions. Because most sensitive regime of aerosol climate forcing on cloud development is the midpoint of relatively clean conditions afforded by the Covid lockdown between background and polluted conditions.