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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2024-3666</article-id>
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<article-title>Machine Learning Assisted Inference of the Particle Charge Fraction and the Ion-induced Nucleation Rates during New Particle Formation Events</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Pan</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Yue</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-5101</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Jiandong</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3000-622X</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kerminen</surname>
<given-names>Veli-Matti</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0706-669X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Jingkun</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Chenxi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9388-5375</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>China Meteorological Administration Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Key Laboratory, School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki,  Finland</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University,  100084 Beijing, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>22</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Pan Wang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>The charge state of atmospheric new particles is controlled by both their initial charge state upon formation and subsequent interaction with atmospheric ions. By measuring the charge state of growing particles, the fraction of ion-induced nucleation (F&lt;sub&gt;IIN&lt;/sub&gt;) within total new particle formation (NPF) can be inferred, which is critical for understanding NPF mechanisms. However, existing theoretical approaches for predicting particle charge states suffer from inaccuracies due to simplifying assumptions, hence their ability to infer F&lt;sub&gt;IIN&lt;/sub&gt; is sometimes limited. Here we develop a numerical model to explicitly simulate the charging dynamics of new particles. Our simulations demonstrate that both particle growth rate and ion concentration substantially influence the particle charge state, while ion-ion recombination becomes important when the charged particle concentrations are high. Leveraging a large set of simulations, we constructed two regression models using residual neural networks. The first model (ResFWD) predicts the charge state of growing particles with known F&lt;sub&gt;IIN&lt;/sub&gt; values, while the second model (ResBWD) operates in reverse to estimate F&lt;sub&gt;IIN &lt;/sub&gt;based on the charge fraction of particles at prescribed sizes. Good agreement between the regression models and benchmark simulations demonstrates the potential of our approach for analysing ion-induced nucleation events. Sensitivity analysis further reveals that ResFWD and the benchmark simulations exhibit similar sensitivity to input noises, but the robustness of ResBWD requires that the information of initial particle charge state is retained at the prescribed sizes. Our study provides insights on charging dynamics of atmospheric new particles and introduces a new method for assessing ion-induced nucleation rates.</p>
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<funding-source>National Key Research and Development Program of China</funding-source>
<award-id>2022YFC3704100</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>22206120</award-id>
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<funding-source>State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control</funding-source>
<award-id>none</award-id>
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<funding-source>Samsung</funding-source>
<award-id>PM 2.5</award-id>
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