Clouds as habitat and seeders of active bacteria

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4495, Issue , 2002, Pages 211-222

  Sattler, Birgit ^a   Puxbaum, Hans ^b   Limbeck, Andreas ^b   Psenner, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aeroplankton; Bacterial productivity; Cloud condensation nuclei; Clouds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACTERIA; CLOUDS; ECOSYSTEMS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACTIVE MICROBES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PRODUCTIVITY; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; OLIGOTROPHIC AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0036396560     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454760     Document Type: Article

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