The relevance of nanoscale biological fragments for ice nucleation in clouds

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  O'Sullivan, D ^a   Murray, B J ^a   Ross, J F ^a   Whale, T F ^a   Price, H C ^a   Atkinson, J D ^a,b   Umo, N S ^a   Webb, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; NANOPARTICLE; SOIL; WATER;

ATMOSPHERE; BIRCH; CHEMISTRY; FUSARIUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCELIUM; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLEN; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; BETULA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; FUSARIUM; ICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCELIUM; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLEN; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84930481536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08082     Document Type: Article

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