Lecture Notes in Physics

Binary homogeneous nucleation.- The effect of atmospheric aerosol on the acidity of precipitation.- Gas-particle reactions in a humid atmosphere.- Determination of the sticking probability of H2SO4 ON H2SO4-H2O aerosols.- Experiments on the sticking probability for water molecules during condensation of water vapor in air.- Aerosol formation and distribution in the Arctic during AGASP-II, March-April 1986.- Sulfate production in different-sized droplets using an adiabatic parcel model.- Aerosol compositional effects on mountain clouds: Attributing sources of acid deposition.- Characterisation of atmospheric aerosols in the Northern part of Europe.- Fibrous aerosols at higher tropospheric altitudes.- Time-size structure of atmospheric aerosol.- The vertical profile of condensation nuclei on cloudy days.- An optical aerosol climatology.- The use of the log beta distribution to characterize atmospheric aerosols.- Characteristic features of distribution and variation of Atmospheric Aitken Nuclei in mountain regions.- Registration of condensation nuclei and particle concentration 0.3 ? d ? 6 ? m in the atmosphere: Vertical gradient of concentration, washout effects.- Models of size spectrum of tropospheric aerosol.- Experiments on the dynamics of ultrafine aerosol particles.- Modeling of coagulation processes in the atmosphere.- Brownian coagulation of aerosols in free molecular regime.- On the role of aerosol particles spatial fluctuations under coagulation growth.- On the effect of the spectral shape of a source on the steady-state particle distribution of a coagulating aerosol.- Scavenging of aerosol particles by rain and drizzle.- The influence of periodical source on the process of coagulation.- Physical characterization of agglomerated aerosol particles through size-invariant fractal properties.- The use of numerically simulated clusters to evaluate algorithms for fractal dimensionality.- The experimental measurements of clusters formed from soot agglomerates near the sooting limit.- Express-method for presentation of measurement results of high-disperse aerosols parameters by diffusional methods.- The observation of the wet atmospheric aerosol by aeras cascade impactors.- Aspiration of coarse atmospheric aerosols: Selection of sampling devicies and correction of sampling errors.- Density of atmospheric aerosol particles.- Atmospheric aerosols - the subject of physico-chemical study.- A nearly complete characterization of the physico-chemical and optical properties of aerosols.- Kinetics of aerosol formation at photolysis of haloidaryl vapours.- On the effect of thermo- and diffusiophoretic capture of hygroscopic aerosol particles onto evaporation of solution droplets.- Condensational growth of some Hygroscopic salt aerosols in standard conditions.- Study of interconnections between some parameters of the atmospheric aerosol composition and the ozone concentration.- Radiation induced aerosol formation in gas mixtures containing S02 and NOx.- Aerosol formation according to specific vapour pressure.- The effect of thermodynamic inhomogeneities on nuclei counting in expansion type counters.- Growth system for ultrafine particles (Principle and preliminary experiments).- A condensation nucleus counter designed for ultrafine particle detection above 3nm diameter.- Measurements of aerosol size distributions with a pocket counter with variable expansion ratio.- An analysis of pressure variation in a condensation nucleus counter during expansion.- A combined DMPS - OPC - sizing - system and its calibration and application for environmental aerosols.- Modern vethods for determining microphysical characteristics of atmospheric aerosols.- Comparative tests of TSI-3030 electric aerosol analyzer and measuring complex of ICK&C, USSR AS.- Multiwavelength lidar measurements of aerosols in the lower atmosphere.- Measurement of integral parameters in the investigations of optical properties of aerosols.- Background particle size distributions over North America.- Effects of El Chichon volcanic effluents on stratospheric aerosol dynamics.- South Pole aerosol measurements during 1987.- Measurements of aerosol size spectra and chemical composition in the Dead sea rift valley.- Examples of the evolution of multimodal aerosol size distributions in midlatitudes and the Arctic.- Relative humidity parameterization of the lognormal size distribution of ambient aerosols.- Observation of condensation on small air ions in the atmosphere.- Evidences of particle formation by homogeneous nucleation over the oceans.- Numerical simulation of the evolution of the particle size distribution in the marine boundary layer.- Production of aerosol at the ocean surface.- Factors affecting concentrations of sea salt particles in the tropical west Pacific area.- Volatility of maritime aerosol.- The liquid water content of a radiation fog by the FSSP 100 optical probe and the aeras jet impaction stage.- Some investigations of tropical aerosol characteristics over western pacific ocean by using forward scattering spectrometer probe.- Recent investigations on marine aerosols.- Physical characteristics of the atmosphere state favouring secondary aerosol formation in the lower troposphere.- Experimental study of the modification process of aerosol particles in the atmospeere.- Trace elements in atmospheric aerosols over Hungary.- The photoelectric aerosol sensor - a tool for the in situ detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon coated particles.- Aerosols residence time calculations using bismuth-210/lead-210 activity ratios of atmospheric particulates.- Determination of scatter coefficients due to atmospheric aerosols: A case study.- Statistics of Raman scattered light on aerosol particles and its relation to the chemical properties of the aerosol.- Microscopic and chemical analyses of aerosol and rime samples collected in a mountainous area.- Soot particle scavenging by growing ice crystals.- A theoretical investigation on the washout of aerosol particles by falling ice crystals.- Results of the study of the aerosol concentration in cumulus clouds.- Chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols, their migration and transformation on the example of the Central Asia region.- Spectrometric study of atmospheric particle size and composition.- The seasonal changes of the properties of the aerosols-cosmogenic radionuclides carriers.- Modelling of 210PB, 210BI, 210PO finding forms in aerosols in the ground level air.- Chemical characteristics and source apportionment of aerosols in a coal-consumed city.- On the determination of dispersivity and chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols.- Scaled models for nucleation.- Comparative study of homogeneous nucleation in various tetrachloride vapors.- The homogeneous nucleation of nonane.- Systematic studies of homogeneous nucleation processes; discovery of propensity rules.- Growth processes and homogeneous nucleation in vapour-gas mixtures.- Comparison of models for the composition of binary nuclei.- Measurements of the heteromolecular homogeneous nucleation of partially miscible liquids.- Homogeneous nucleation in binary melt systems.- Experimental study of heteromolecular nucleation in sulphuric acid-water vapour binary system.- Binary nucleation of water-sulphuric acid systems: Comparison of theoretical and experimental results.- Nonclassical nucleation theory of condensation.- Thermodynamic and kinetic model for condensation in finite systems, and its application to experimental results.- Spontaneous nucleation rate, sizes and of critical nuclei in many-component supersaturated vapour.- Gas phase nucleation involving polymers.- Expansion cloud chamber measurements of the gas phase self- initiated thermal polymerization of styrene.- Kinetics of ion induced nucleation.- Magnetic water treatment.- Photoinduced nucleation of nickel carbonyl.- Thermodynamic considerations on the stability of colloidal dispersions with ionizable surface groups like silica sols.- The critical complex in nucleation is not the nucleus.- Size dependence of surface thermodynamic parameters of microclusters and the location of the gibbs' "surface of tension".- Effects of size dependent surface tension and temperature on homogeneous nucleation of toluene.- Monte Carlo simulations of small water clusters: Effective surface tension.- Investigations of the formation and the structure of microclusters by direct computer simulation.- Potentialities of molecular model in describing heterogeneous ice crystal nucleation.- Problems associated with ensemble treatment in statistical-mechanical theories of nucleation.- Anharmonictty corrections to the thermodynamic properties of nucleating clusters of Nitrogen molecules.- Thermodynamics of phase transitions of water.- A comprehensive study of nucleation rates: A molecular cluster model approach.- Polycrystallization of water drops freezing on an ice substrate.- The maximum rate of homogeneous ice nucleation in air by cooling.- The ice/water interface: Analysis of molecular trajectories.- Heterogeneous ice crystal nucleation on model nuclei.- Heterogeneous ice nucleation in adsorbed layers. Experiment and theory.- Ice nucleation by AgI solid solutions.- The features of water phase transition under low pressure.- Optical studies of condensation dynamics in a supersonic nozzle.- Homogeneous condensation in transonic flow.- Nucleation and growth rates from shock tube experiments.- Laboratory investigations on reactivity and condensation nuclei properties of coated and uncoated ultrafine particles.- Thermodynamically nonequilibrium heterogeneous nucleation.- Nucleation studies of I-III-VI2 ternary semiconductors during chemical vapour transport.- Cloud condensation nuclei.- On the theory of the initial phase of condensation.- Use of an Isothermal Haze Chamber for studying the conditions of fog formation.- Measurement of CCN with the Thermal Diffusion Tube.- Airborne CCN spectral measurements.- Distribution of salt nuclei near sea shore at Visakhapatnam.- The effects of the spectra, concentration and chemical composition of salt nuclei on the formation of the cloud droplet spectra in cumulus clouds.- On the influence of cetyl alcohol vapour on the condensation processes in the course of cloud formation.- The generation of secondary marine aerosols: The crystallization of seawater droplets.- CCN concentrations and supersaturation spectrum curves observed in a tropical rain forest South of the Sahara.- A parametric study of condensation growth and nucleation scavenging over large fires.- Characterization of combustion aerosol for haze and cloud formation.- Airborne observations of summertime CCN concentration in the middle-lower troposphere over Northern China.- Correlation between fog optical depth and the characteristics of the medium phase function.- Aerosol effects on marine stratocumulus development observed from multispectral satellite measurements.- Influence of physical and chemical properties of aerosols on clouds in mesoscale models.- Effect of nucleation and condensation in a nucleus counter on trace levels of SO2 present in atmospheric air samples.- Ice nuclei of biological origin.- Phase transitions in an adsorbed water layer on aerosol particles.- Theoretical estimations of stimulation by adsorbed ions of supercooled droplets crystallization in clouds.- Phenomenological theory of ice nucleation on particles with inhomogeneous surface and its verification.- Stability of nucleation sites for ice.- Observations of homogeneous-freezing of freely suspended aqueous solution droplets.- Studies of ice nucleation by carbonaceous soot aerosols.- Homogeneous droplet nucleation rates derived from cirrus cloud measurements.- Ice nucleation on aerosol particles op a mixed chemical nature.- Collision-freezing: A new mechanism for ice initiation in warm-based cumuli.- The role of contact nucleation scavenging in the coalescence-freezing mechanism.- X-ray diffraction analysis of aerosols obtained by burning of the AgJ based pyrotechnics.- Comparisons of cloud chamber and cloud model simulations of ice nucleation by silver iodide.- Ice nuclei in atmosphere over Baicheng Prefecture in spring.- Ice forming nuclei concentrations at Palmer Station, Antarctica.- Probability of ice nuccleation on ultrafine particles of silver and silver iodide.- Kinetics of ice crystal formation on aerosol particles in fog.- Studies on the vertical distribution of atmospheric ice nuclei.- The supercooling of the ice sponge-to-water skin interface of gyrating hailstones.- Rapid ice nucleation: Laboratory and field studies of the phenomenon and its importance.- A dynamic processing chamber for ice nuclei filter samples.- The method of measuring the instant freezing nucleus spectrum in a precipitation sample.- Stochastic, ice nucleation on a nonhomogeneous surface.- Ice-forming activity of atmospheric aerosol particles of different sizes.- Ice electronucleation: Laboratory and field evidence in support of a new mechanism of ice nucleation.- The prevention of ice crystal growth from water by "antifreeze proteins".- Heterogeneous ice nucleation within emulsions.