The atmosphere connects habitats across multiple spatial scales via airborne dispersal of
microbial cells, propagules and biomolecules. Atmospheric microorganisms have been …

Aerosols of biological origin play a vital role in the Earth system, particularly in the
interactions between atmosphere, biosphere, climate, and public health. Airborne bacteria …

Ice particle formation in tropospheric clouds significantly changes cloud radiative and
microphysical properties. Ice nucleation in the troposphere via homogeneous freezing …

Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

Shallow clouds covering vast areas of the world's middle-and high-latitude oceans play a
key role in dampening the global temperature rise associated with CO 2. These clouds …

Biological particles in the Earth's atmosphere are a distinctive category of ice nucleating
particles (INPs) due to their capability of facilitating ice crystal formation in clouds at …

The amount of ice present in clouds can affect cloud lifetime, precipitation and radiative
properties,. The formation of ice in clouds is facilitated by the presence of airborne ice …

Allergies are complex diseases that result from interactions between multiple genetic and
environmental factors. However, the increase in allergies observed in the past decades is …

Antifreeze proteins from polar fish species are remarkable biomacromolecules which
prevent the growth of ice crystals. Ice crystal growth is a major problem in cell/tissue …

Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are known to affect the amount of ice in mixed-phase clouds,
thereby influencing many of their properties. The atmospheric INP concentration changes by …