Spores of many common airborne fungi reveal no ice nucleation activity in oil immersion freezing experiments

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8083-8091

  Pummer, B G ^a,c   Atanasova, L ^b   Bauer, H ^b   Bernardi, J ^b   Druzhinina, I S ^b   Frohlich Nowoisky J ^c   Grothe, H ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIRBORNE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; DROPLET; EMULSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREEZING; FUNGUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE; NUCLEATION; SAMPLING; SPORE;

EID: 84890535370     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-8083-2013     Document Type: Article

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