Annual Variability of Particle Size, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, and Particle Hygroscopicity in the Central Arctic

Xianda Gong1, Jiaoshi Zhang1, Betty Croft2, Xin Yang3, Markus M Frey4, Rachel Chang5, Jessie Creamean6, Chongai Kuang7, Randall Martin8, Arthur J Sedlacek III9, Uin Janek7, Sascha Willmes10,11, Maria A Zawadowicz12, Jeffrey R Pierce13, Matthew Shupe14, Julia Schmale15 and Jian Wang1, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (2)Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)Dalhousie University, Physics & Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (8)Washington University in St. Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (9)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (10)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (11)University of Trier, Environmental Meteorology, Trier, Germany, (12)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (13)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (14)CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Extreme Environments Research Laboratory, Sion, Switzerland