Atmospheric ice nucleation

DA Knopf, PA Alpert - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric ice nucleation is crucial for global precipitation and affects the structure, lifetime
and reflectivity of clouds, thereby impacting climate. Ice nucleates in various ways from …

Biogenic secondary organic aerosols: A review on formation mechanism, analytical challenges and environmental impacts

M Mahilang, MK Deb, S Pervez - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The review initiates with current state of information on the atmospheric reaction mechanism
of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and its fate in the atmosphere. The plants …

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 …

The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues

M Hallquist, JC Wenger, U Baltensperger… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for a significant fraction of ambient tropospheric
aerosol and a detailed knowledge of the formation, properties and transformation of SOA is …

Revisiting ice nucleation from precipitation samples

MD Petters, TP Wright - Geophysical Research Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An emerging and unsolved question is the sensitivity of cloud processes, precipitation, and
climate to the atmospheric ice nucleus spectrum. This work revisits estimation of …

Measuring the Surface Tension of Atmospheric Particles and Relevant Mixtures to Better Understand Key Atmospheric Processes

M El Haber, V Gérard, J Kleinheins… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Aerosol and aqueous particles are ubiquitous in Earth's atmosphere and play key roles in
geochemical processes such as natural chemical cycles, cloud and fog formation, air …

Ice nucleation efficiency of AgI: review and new insights

C Marcolli, B Nagare, A Welti… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
AgI is one of the best-investigated ice-nucleating substances. It has relevance for the
atmosphere since it is used for glaciogenic cloud seeding. Theoretical and experimental …

Heterogeneous ice nucleation rate coefficient of water droplets coated by a nonadecanol monolayer

B Zobrist, T Koop, BP Luo, C Marcolli… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The heterogeneous ice nucleation rate coefficient (j het) of water droplets coated with a
monolayer of 1-nonadecanol was determined from multiple freezing/melting cycles …

Ice properties of single‐layer stratocumulus during the Mixed‐Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 2. Model results

AM Fridlind, AS Ackerman… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements from the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
Program's 2004 Mixed‐Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M‐PACE) provide a unique …

Parameterizations for ice nucleation in biological and atmospheric systems

T Koop, B Zobrist - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Ice nucleation is an important process in numerous environmental systems such as
atmospheric aerosol droplets or biological tissues. Here we analyze two widely used …