The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code: A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols

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The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code : A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols. / Svensmark, Jacob; Shaviv, Nir J.; Enghoff, Martin B.; Svensmark, Henrik.

In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Vol. 7, No. 9, e2020EA001142, 01.09.2020.

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Svensmark, J, Shaviv, NJ, Enghoff, MB & Svensmark, H 2020, 'The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code: A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols', Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 7, no. 9, e2020EA001142. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001142

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Svensmark, J., Shaviv, N. J., Enghoff, M. B., & Svensmark, H. (2020). The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code: A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 7(9), [e2020EA001142]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001142

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Svensmark J, Shaviv NJ, Enghoff MB, Svensmark H. The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code: A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020 Sep 1;7(9). e2020EA001142. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001142

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Svensmark, Jacob ; Shaviv, Nir J. ; Enghoff, Martin B. ; Svensmark, Henrik. / The Ion and Charged Aerosol Growth Enhancement (ION-CAGE) code : A numerical model for the growth of charged and neutral aerosols. In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020 ; Vol. 7, No. 9.

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abstract = "The presence of small ions influences the growth dynamics of a size distribution of aerosols. Specifically the often neglected mass of small ions influences the aerosol growth rate, which may be important for terrestrial cloud formation. To this end, we develop a numerical model to calculate the growth of a species of aerosols in the presence of charge, which explicitly includes terms for ion-condensation. It is shown that a positive contribution to aerosol growth rate is obtained by increasing the ion-pair concentration through this effect, consistent with recent experimental findings. The ion-condensation effect is then compared to aerosol growth from charged aerosol coagulation, which is seen to be independent of ion-pair concentration. The model source code is made available through a public repository. ",
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