Ice nucleation by particles immersed in supercooled cloud droplets

BJ Murray, D O'sullivan, JD Atkinson… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of ice particles in the Earth's atmosphere strongly affects the properties of
clouds and their impact on climate. Despite the importance of ice formation in determining …

Primary biological aerosol particles in the atmosphere: a review

VR Després, JA Huffman, SM Burrows… - Tellus B: Chemical …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Atmospheric aerosol particles of biological origin are a very diverse group of biological
materials and structures, including microorganisms, dispersal units, fragments and …

The role of organic aerosol in atmospheric ice nucleation: A review

DA Knopf, PA Alpert, B Wang - ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

H Bhattarai, E Saikawa, X Wan, H Zhu, K Ram… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of air pollution from local to global scale, having
variable effects on air quality, human health, and climate system. Therefore, the source …

Biomass burning contribution to Beijing aerosol

Y Cheng, G Engling, KB He, FK Duan… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning, the largest global source of elemental carbon (EC) and primary organic
carbon (OC), is strongly associated with many subjects of great scientific concern, such as …

The molecular identification of organic compounds in the atmosphere: state of the art and challenges

B Noziere, M Kalberer, M Claeys, J Allan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The Earth's atmosphere offers a striking contrast with other known planets by its rich organic
composition, which results almost exclusively from the presence of life on the planet. About …

Contribution of fungi to primary biogenic aerosols in the atmosphere: wet and dry discharged spores, carbohydrates, and inorganic ions

W Elbert, PE Taylor, MO Andreae… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2007 - acp.copernicus.org
Biogenic aerosols play important roles in atmospheric chemistry physics, the biosphere,
climate, and public health. Here, we show that fungi which actively discharge their spores …

Suspendable macromolecules are responsible for ice nucleation activity of birch and conifer pollen

BG Pummer, H Bauer, J Bernardi… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
The ice nucleation of bioaerosols (bacteria, pollen, spores, etc.) is a topic of growing interest,
since their impact on ice cloud formation and thus on radiative forcing, an important …

Source apportionment of PM10 in a north-western Europe regional urban background site (Lens, France) using positive matrix factorization and including primary …

A Waked, O Favez, LY Alleman, C Piot… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
In this work, the source of ambient particulate matter (PM 10) collected over a one-year
period at an urban background site in Lens (France) was determined and investigated using …

Ice nucleation by water-soluble macromolecules

BG Pummer, C Budke… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud glaciation is critically important for the global radiation budget (albedo) and for
initiation of precipitation. But the freezing of pure water droplets requires cooling to …