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Sportisse & Djouad 2003
Sportisse, B. and Djouad, R. (2003). Mathematical investigation of mass transfer for atmospheric pollutants into a fixed droplet with aqueous chemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: doi: 10.1029/2001JD001336. issn: 0148-0227.

The objective of this article is to investigate some of the classical parameterizations used for modeling mass transfer between interstitial gas and cloud droplets for aqueous-phase models in Air Pollution Modeling <Schwartz, 1986>. After an appropriate scaling of the initial model (a set of two coupled Partial Differential Equations), we apply the singular perturbation theory and some theoretical results of Reaction-Diffusion models with large diffusion coefficients. This justifies the use of classical parameterizations in a large range of parameters. Moreover, we propose a new parameterization of mass transfer, taking into account aqueous-phase diffusion limitations. This parameterization is based on a double-film model and may have an impact for some species, as it is illustrated with a simple box model.

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Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling, Mathematical Geophysics, General or miscellaneous, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud physics and chemistry
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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