Polarstern cruises
The matter and energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere plays an important rule for the physical and chemical development of the climate system earth.
For a comprehensive investigation of the physical and chemical properties of submicron marine aerosol particles in the marine boundary layer measurements with a great number of instruments of TROPOS are performed during the measuring campaign ANT-XXVII/4, ANT-XXVIII/1, ANT-XXVIII/5 and XXIX/1 aboard the research vessel Polarstern.
Presently the following measurement instruments are integrated in the aerosol container:
- Particle number size distribution with the SMPS (Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer) and the APS (Aerodynamic Particle Sizer)
- Optical properties like spectral scattering coefficient with the Integrating Nephelometer, absorption coefficient with the PSAP (Particle Soot Absorption Photometer) and with the MAAP (Multi Angle Absorption Photometer)
- Hygroscopic particle growth of marine aerosol particles with the HTDMA (Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer)
- Chemical composition of marine aerosol particles with the HR-ToF-AMS (High Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer)
- Activation of marine aerosol particle to cloud droplets with the CCNc (Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter)
