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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-32</article-id>
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<article-title>Dependence of CCN Closure Relationship with Organic Fraction from Two Airborne Field Campaigns over Mid-Latitude Land and Ocean</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ai</surname>
<given-names>Guangxin</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tang</surname>
<given-names>Shuaiqi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8946-9205</ext-link>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Hailong</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-4402</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mei</surname>
<given-names>Fan</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4285-2749</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Minghuai</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9179-228X</ext-link>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing University, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>28</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Guangxin Ai et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>This study investigates the relationship between measured and calculated cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentration and its dependence with organic fraction utilizing aircraft observations from the The Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA, 2017&amp;ndash;2018) and The Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Land Ecosystems (HI-SCALE, 2016) campaigns, which represent midlatitude marine and continental environments, respectively. For the ACE-ENA marine region, aerosol and CCN concentrations were significantly higher in summer than in winter, whereas at continental site for HI-SCALE, aerosol and CCN concentrations showed no pronounced differences between spring and autumn. Using aerosol chemical composition and number size distribution data, CCN concentrations at various supersaturations are calculated based on K&amp;ouml;hler theory and then compared with observations from CCN counter. The results show that CCN closure performs well at both sites with a slight overestimation, with mean closure ratio (CR) of 1.13 and 1.18, respectively. Further investigation reveals that CR at lower supersaturation perform better than that at higher supersaturation. The dependence of CR on organic mass fraction (MForg) varies by environment: for marine aerosols, CR decreases with increasing organic fraction at lower supersaturations, whereas continental aerosols exhibit a consistent overestimation, with CR decreasing as organic fraction increases at higher supersaturations. This study provides key insights into CCN characteristics over midlatitude marine and continental environments, emphasizing the necessity of incorporating size-resolved chemical composition and mixing states into future model parameterizations, and contributing to a better understanding of aerosol&amp;ndash;cloud interactions.</p>
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<funding-source>National Key Research and Development Program of China</funding-source>
<award-id>2024YFF0809403</award-id>
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