Articles | Volume 18, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3965-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3965-2025
Development and technical paper
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01 Jul 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 01 Jul 2025

Numerical investigations on the modelling of ultrafine particles in SSH-aerosol-v1.3a: size resolution and redistribution

Oscar Jacquot and Karine Sartelet

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Modelling the size distribution and the number concentration is important to represent ultrafine particles. A new analytic formulation is presented to compute coagulation partition coefficients, allowing us to lower the numerical diffusion associated with the resolution of aerosol dynamics. The significance of this effect is assessed in a 0D box model and over greater Paris with a chemistry transport model, using different size resolutions of the particle distribution.
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