摘要：The effect of organic coating on the heterogeneous ice nucleation (IN) efficiency of dust
particles was investigated at simulated cirrus cloud conditions in the AIDA cloud chamber
of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Arizona test dust (ATD) and the clay mineral illite were used
as surrogates for atmospheric dust aerosols. The dry dust samples were dispersed into a
3.7 m3 aerosol vessel and either directly transferred into the
84 m3 cloud simulation chamber or coated before with the semi-volatile products from the reaction of
α-pinene with ozone in order to mimic the coating of atmospheric dust particles
with secondary organic aerosol (SOA) substances. The ice-active fraction was
measured in AIDA expansion cooling experiments as a function of the relative
humidity with respect to ice, RHi, in the temperature range from 205 to
210 K. Almost all uncoated dust particles with diameters between 0.1 and
1.0 µm acted as efficient deposition mode ice nuclei at RHi between 105 and 120%. This high ice
nucleation efficiency was markedly suppressed by coating with SOA. About 20% of the
ATD particles coated with a SOA mass fraction of 17 wt% were ice-active at RHi between
115 and 130%, and only 10% of the illite particles coated with an SOA mass
fraction of 41 wt% were ice-active at RHi between 160 and 170%. Only a minor
fraction of pure SOA particles were ice-active at RHi between 150 and 190%. Strong
IN activation of SOA particles was observed only at RHi above 200%, which is
clearly above water saturation at the given temperature. The IN suppression and
the shift of the heterogeneous IN onset to higher RHi seem to depend on the
coating thickness or the fractional surface coverage of the mineral particles. The
results indicate that the heterogeneous ice nucleation potential of atmospheric
mineral particles may also be suppressed if they are coated with secondary organics.
