Importance of aerosol composition, mixing state, and morphology for heterogeneous ice nucleation: A combined field and laboratory approach

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Baustian, Kelly J ^a,b   Cziczo, Daniel J ^c,d   Wise, Matthew E ^a,e   Pratt, Kerri A ^c,f   Kulkarni, Gourihar ^c   Hallar, A Gannet ^g   Tolbert, Margaret A ^a,b  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado Boulder ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Department of Chemistry Concordia University ^*  (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; LABORATORIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MIXING; NUCLEATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SHIPS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL SAMPLING; AMBIENT PARTICLES; BACKGROUND AEROSOL; CASCADE IMPACTORS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COARSE MODE; COUNTERFLOW; FIELD MEASUREMENT; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE FORMATIONS; ICE NUCLEATION; ICE NUCLEI; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INORGANIC PARTICLES; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LASER MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIXING STATE; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC PARTICLES; PARTICLE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE FRACTION; SINGLE-PARTICLE; STORM PEAK LABORATORY; VIRTUAL IMPACTORS;

ICE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERAL; MIXING; NUCLEATION; OXYGEN; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859470557     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016784     Document Type: Article

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