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PREFERRED TERM

growth factor  

DEFINITION

  • Hygroscopic growth factor (GF) of aerosols is related to water loading on particles in sub-saturated conditions. It is calculated as the ratio of the diameter of the particle after exposition to a given relative humidity to the diameter of the particle before exposition. Growth factor is unitless.

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https://vocabulary.actris.nilu.no/actris_vocab/growthfactor

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