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How important is biological ice nucleation in clouds on a global scale?
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The high ice nucleating ability of some biological particles has led to speculations about living and dead organisms being involved in cloud ice and precipitation formation, exerting a possibly significant influence on weather and climate. In the present study, the role of primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) as heterogeneous ice nuclei is investigated with a global model. Emission parametrizations for bacteria, fungal spores and pollen based on recent literature are introduced, as well as an immersion freezing parametrization based on classical nucleation theory and laboratory measurements. The simulated contribution of PBAPs to the global average ice nucleation rate is only 10 − 5 %, with an uppermost estimate of 0.6%. At the same time, observed PBAP concentrations in air and biological ice nucleus concentrations in snow are reasonably well captured by the model. This implies that 'bioprecipitation' processes (snow and rain initiated by PBAPs) are of minor importance on the global scale.
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- Hoose, C., Kristjánsson, J. E., & Burrows, S. M.
- Venue
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2010-04
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 024009
- ISSN
- 1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2145192043
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- 313
- References
- 41
- FWCI
- 14.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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