Abstract
Abstract The importance of atmospheric aerosols in understanding global climate changes has renewed interest in measurements of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). To obtain high-resolution (125 m) vertical profiles of CCN number concentration, a balloon-borne instrument was developed. The instrument deduces the CCN concentration from measurements of laser light scattered by water droplets that condense on CCN within a static thermal-gradient diffusion chamber. The amount of light scattering is linearly proportional to the number of droplets within the diffusion chamber. Correlating the number of droplets within the sample volume with the amount of light scattered by the droplets provides the calibration constant that relates scattered light to CCN concentration. The calibration was tested by comparisons between the CCN counter and a condensation nuclei counter when sampling monodisperse aerosol larger than the CCN counter’s critical activation size. The calibration constant depends on supersaturation, and d...
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