Evaporation studies of model polar stratospheric cloud films

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Middlebrook, AM
Tolbert, MA
Drdla, K
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[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,DEPT ATMOSPHER SCI,LOS ANGELES,CA 90024
[2] UNIV COLORADO,CIRES,BOULDER,CO 80309
[3] UNIV COLORADO,DEPT CHEM & BIOCHEM,BOULDER,CO 80309
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10.1029/96GL01962
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
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To investigate evaporation of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), mixed nibic-acid/ice films with varying HNO3 content were heated at 0.3 K min(-1) in vacuum and monitored with transmission Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The ability for HNO3 inclusions to hinder ice evaporation was found to depend on the concentration of HNO3. Specifically, films with initial compositions of similar to 80:1 and similar to 150:1 H2O:HNO3 evaporated similar to 8 K and similar to 3 K higher than pure ice, respectively. In addition, the surface coverage of nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) appears to control the overall evaporation rate. In the atmosphere, NAT may form on the surface of an ice PSC by direct HNO3 adsorption or by evaporation of a PSC with HNO3 in the bulk.
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