Publications by Athanasios Nenes

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Southern Africa produces almost a third of the Earth's biomass burning (BB) aerosol particles, yet the fate of these particles and their influence on regional and global climate is poorly understood. ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their ...

The oxidative potential (OP) of fine and coarse fractions of ambient aerosols was studied in the urban environment of Athens, Greece. OP was quantified using a dithiothreitol (DTT) assay, applied to the water soluble fraction of aerosol that was extracted ...

This work reports on the current status of the global modeling of iron (Fe) deposition fluxes and atmospheric concentrations and the analyses of the differences between models, as well as between models and observations. A total of four global 3-D chemistr ...

Humans are the primary sources of CO2 and NH3 indoors. Their emission rates may be influenced by human physiological and psychological status. This study investigated the impact of physiological and psychological engagements on the human emissions of CO2 a ...

This study examines the impact of light absorption from biomass burning (BB) brown carbon (BrC) in the Mediterranean basin from local and distant fire incidents during a typical fire season in August 2019 and under severe fire activity in August 2021. The ...

We present a comprehensive review of methods and applications of molecular simulations of interfacial systems. We give a detailed overview of the main techniques and major challenges in the following aspects of solid and fluid surfaces: adsorption at solid ...

Accurately representing mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) in global climate models (GCMs) is critical for capturing climate sensitivity and Arctic amplification. Secondary ice production (SIP), can significantly increase ice crystal number concentration (ICNC) in ...

Aerosols that are efficient ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are crucial for the formation of cloud ice via heterogeneous nucleation in the atmosphere. The distribution of INPs on a large spatial scale and as a function of height determines their impact on ...

Clouds remain a major source of uncertainty in climate projections, particularly due to complexities in aerosol-cloud interactions. To improve the representation of mixed-phase clouds in EC-Earth3, the model's heterogeneous ice nucleation scheme has been u ...

Primary emissions from wood and pellet stoves were aged in an atmospheric simulation chamber under daytime and nighttime conditions. The aerosol was analyzed with online aerosol mass spectrometry and offline Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). ...

The interaction between water vapor and atmos-pheric aerosol leads to enhancement in aerosol water content,which facilitates haze development, but its concentrations, sources,and impacts remain largely unknown in polluted urban environ-ments. Here, we show ...

Monitoring indoor air quality is important nowdays, as noted by many researchers, since pollution potentially introduces a major impact on the health of people. There are many factors that increase the concentration of a pollutant in a room and there may e ...

Pellet combustion in residential heating stoves has increased globally during the last decade. Despite their high combustion efficiency, the widespread use of pellet stoves is expected to adversely impact air quality. The atmospheric aging of pellet emissi ...

A significant fraction of atmospheric particles that serve as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) are thought to originate from the condensational growth of new particle formation (NPF) from the gas phase. Here, 7 years of continuous aerosol and meteorological ...

In this work, we utilize a rich set of simulated and ground-based observational data in Tianjin, China to examine and compare the differences in aerosol acidity and composition predicted by three popular thermodynamic equilibrium models: ISORROPIA II, the ...

Liquid-liquid phase-separated (LLPS) aerosol particles are known to exhibit increased cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity compared to well-mixed ones due to a complex effect of low surface tension and non-ideal mixing. The relation between the two con ...

Biomass burning is a major source of atmospheric brown carbon (BrC), and through its absorption of UV/VIS radiation, it can play an important role in the planetary radiative balance and atmospheric photochemistry. The considerable uncertainty of BrC impact ...

The Arctic is one of the most rapidly warming regions of the globe. Low-level clouds and fog modify the energy transfer from and to space and play a key role in the observed strong Arctic surface warming, a phenomenon commonly termed "Arctic amplification" ...

Accurately capturing cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations is key to understanding the aerosol-cloud interactions that continue to feature the highest uncertainty amongst numerous climate forcings. In situ CCN observations are sparse, and most non ...

Heterogeneous ice nucleation is a ubiquitous process in the natural and built environment. Deposition ice nucleation, i.e. heterogeneous ice nucleation that - according to the traditional view - occurs in a subsaturated water vapor environment and in the a ...

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An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

Yearlong variability of oxidative potential of particulate matter in an urban Mediterranean environment

Reviews and syntheses: the GESAMP atmospheric iron deposition model intercomparison study

Physiology or Psychology: What Drives Human Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia?

Brown carbon absorption in the Mediterranean basin from local and long-range transported biomass burning air masses

Molecular simulations of interfacial systems: challenges, applications and future perspectives

RaFSIP: Parameterizing ice multiplication in models using a machine learning approach

Retrieval of ice-nucleating particle concentrations from lidar observations and comparison with UAV in situ measurements

Aerosol-Driven Parameterization of Ice Nucleation and Secondary Ice Processes in EC-Earth3: Evaluation and Climate Impacts

Chemical evolution of primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols during daytime and nighttime

Ammonium Chloride Associated Aerosol Liquid Water Enhances Haze in Delhi, India br

Fusing Machine Learning Methods with Computational Fluid Dynamics and Sensor Data for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring

Characterization and dark oxidation of the emissions of a pellet stove

Regional new particle formation as modulators of cloud condensation nuclei and cloud droplet number in the eastern Mediterranean

Detailed Analysis of Estimated pH, Activity Coefficients, and Ion Concentrations between the Three Aerosol Thermodynamic Models

Molecular scale description of interfacial mass transfer in phase separated aqueous secondary organic aerosol

Atmospheric evolution of molecular-weight-separated brown carbon from biomass burning

Aerosol and dynamical contributions to cloud droplet formation in Arctic low-level clouds

Use of lidar aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients to estimate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations in the southeast Atlantic

The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide