Role of methanesulfonic acid in atmospheric particle nucleation and growth
Rima Baalbaki, Jiali Shen, Mario Simon, Hannah Klebach, Samuel Ruhl, Jenna DeVivo, Mingyi Wang, Wiebke Scholz, Lubna Dada, Birte Rörup, Dominik Stolzenburg, Hanna E Manninen, Eva Sommer, Lucía Caudillo-Plath, Guillaume Marie, Martin Friedrich, Wenjuan Yu, Markus Leiminger, Dina Alfaouri, Antonio Amorim, Tatjana Arnoldi-Meadows, Hannah Beckmann, Moritz Berntheusel, Steffen Bräkling, Zoé Brasseur, Randall Chiu, Jonathan Duplissy, Henning Finkenzeller, Martin Heinritzi, Felix Kunkler, Houssni Lamkaddam, Brandon Lopez, Naser Mahfouz, Vladimir Makhmutov, Monica Martinez, Ruby Marten, Dario Massabo, Roy Mauldin, Bernhard Mentler, Markus Müller · 2026
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Description
Rima Baalbaki leads a very large collaboration reporting, in 2026, experiments on how new particles form in the atmosphere from gases released by ocean plankton. At CERN's CLOUD chamber, which simulates atmospheric conditions, they tested methanesulfonic acid — a breakdown product of a marine sulfur gas — whose role in particle birth was unclear.
Below minus ten degrees Celsius, the acid formed new particles with ammonia as effectively as sulfuric acid does, and the two acids together formed mixed clusters that nucleated faster still. It also drove particle growth at near-maximum rates in cool, humid air. Global simulations suggest the process boosts cloud-forming particles, especially over polar oceans, and may have mattered in the pre-industrial atmosphere.
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| CREATOR | Rima Baalbaki, Jiali Shen, Mario Simon, Hannah Klebach, Samuel Ruhl, Jenna DeVivo, Mingyi Wang, Wiebke Scholz, Lubna Dada, Birte Rörup, Dominik Stolzenburg, Hanna E Manninen, Eva Sommer, Lucía Caudillo-Plath, Guillaume Marie, Martin Friedrich, Wenjuan Yu, Markus Leiminger, Dina Alfaouri, Antonio Amorim, Tatjana Arnoldi-Meadows, Hannah Beckmann, Moritz Berntheusel, Steffen Bräkling, Zoé Brasseur, Randall Chiu, Jonathan Duplissy, Henning Finkenzeller, Martin Heinritzi, Felix Kunkler, Houssni Lamkaddam, Brandon Lopez, Naser Mahfouz, Vladimir Makhmutov, Monica Martinez, Ruby Marten, Dario Massabo, Roy Mauldin, Bernhard Mentler, Markus Müller |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
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| FORMAT | TXT |
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| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |