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Processing and Ageing in the Atmosphere

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Transport through the atmosphere exposes mineral dust to a number of processes that alter its physicochemical properties, which in turn affects its direct and indirect impacts on climate. In this chapter, we review the physical and chemical processes that alter dust properties and their impacts on dust’s radiative properties, cloud condensation nucleus activity, morphology, nutrient and trace element solubility and the impacts of heterogeneous chemistry on dust surfaces on atmospheric composition.

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  1. Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

    Alex R. Baker

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1294, USA

    Olga Laskina & Vicki H. Grassian

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    Peter Knippertz

  2. MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Department of Marine Sedimentology, University of Bremen, NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Geology and Chemical Oceanography, Texel, The Netherlands, Bremen, Germany

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Baker, A.R., Laskina, O., Grassian, V.H. (2014). Processing and Ageing in the Atmosphere. In: Knippertz, P., Stuut, JB. (eds) Mineral Dust. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_4

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