Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) generated by bubble bursting at the ocean surface is an important component of aerosol-cloud interactions over remote oceans, providing the atmosphere with ice-nucleating particles (INPs) or particles required for heterogeneous ice nucleation. Studies have shown that organic...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_21768 2023-09-05T13:21:40+02:00 Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses McCluskey, Christina S. (author) Ovadnevaite, Jurgita (author) Rinaldi, Matteo (author) Atkinson, James (author) Belosi, Franco (author) Ceburnis, Darius (author) Marullo, Salvatore (author) Hill, Thomas C. J. (author) Lohmann, Ulrike (author) Kanji, Zamin A. (author) O'Dowd, Colin (author) Kreidenweis, Sonia M. (author) DeMott, Paul J. (author) 2018-06-16 https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028033 en eng Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres--J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.--2169897X articles:21768 ark:/85065/d74t6n51 doi:10.1029/2017JD028033 Copyright 2018 American Geophysical Union. article Text 2018 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028033 2023-08-14T18:49:17Z Sea spray aerosol (SSA) generated by bubble bursting at the ocean surface is an important component of aerosol-cloud interactions over remote oceans, providing the atmosphere with ice-nucleating particles (INPs) or particles required for heterogeneous ice nucleation. Studies have shown that organic INPs are emitted during phytoplankton blooms, but changes in INP number concentrations (n(INPs)) due to ocean biological activity have not been directly demonstrated in natural SSA. In this study, a clean sector sampler was used to differentiate ice nucleation and composition of pristine SSA from terrestrial aerosol at the Mace Head Research Station in August 2015. Average n(INPs) active at -15 degrees C (n(INPs,-15 degrees C))were 0.0011L(-1), and large variability (up to a factor of 200) was observed for INPs active warmer than -22 degrees C. Highest n(INPs) in the clean sector occurred during a period of elevated marine organic aerosol from offshore biological activity (M1, n(INPs,-15 degrees C)=0.0077L(-1)). A peak in n(INPs) was also observed in terrestrial organic aerosol (T1, n(INPs,-15 degrees C)=0.0076L(-1)). The impacts of heating and hydrogen peroxide digestion on n(INPs) indicate that INPs at Mace Head Research Station were largely organic and that INPs observed during M1 and T1 were biological (i.e., protein containing). Complexities of predicting increases in n(INPs) due to offshore biological activity are explored. A parameterization for pristine SSA INPs over the North Atlantic Ocean was developed, illustrating that SSA is associated with a factor of 1,000 fewer ice-nucleating sites per surface area of aerosol compared to mineral dust. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Mace ENVELOPE(155.883,155.883,-81.417,-81.417) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123 11 6196 6212 |
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Sea spray aerosol (SSA) generated by bubble bursting at the ocean surface is an important component of aerosol-cloud interactions over remote oceans, providing the atmosphere with ice-nucleating particles (INPs) or particles required for heterogeneous ice nucleation. Studies have shown that organic INPs are emitted during phytoplankton blooms, but changes in INP number concentrations (n(INPs)) due to ocean biological activity have not been directly demonstrated in natural SSA. In this study, a clean sector sampler was used to differentiate ice nucleation and composition of pristine SSA from terrestrial aerosol at the Mace Head Research Station in August 2015. Average n(INPs) active at -15 degrees C (n(INPs,-15 degrees C))were 0.0011L(-1), and large variability (up to a factor of 200) was observed for INPs active warmer than -22 degrees C. Highest n(INPs) in the clean sector occurred during a period of elevated marine organic aerosol from offshore biological activity (M1, n(INPs,-15 degrees C)=0.0077L(-1)). A peak in n(INPs) was also observed in terrestrial organic aerosol (T1, n(INPs,-15 degrees C)=0.0076L(-1)). The impacts of heating and hydrogen peroxide digestion on n(INPs) indicate that INPs at Mace Head Research Station were largely organic and that INPs observed during M1 and T1 were biological (i.e., protein containing). Complexities of predicting increases in n(INPs) due to offshore biological activity are explored. A parameterization for pristine SSA INPs over the North Atlantic Ocean was developed, illustrating that SSA is associated with a factor of 1,000 fewer ice-nucleating sites per surface area of aerosol compared to mineral dust. |
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McCluskey, Christina S. (author) Ovadnevaite, Jurgita (author) Rinaldi, Matteo (author) Atkinson, James (author) Belosi, Franco (author) Ceburnis, Darius (author) Marullo, Salvatore (author) Hill, Thomas C. J. (author) Lohmann, Ulrike (author) Kanji, Zamin A. (author) O'Dowd, Colin (author) Kreidenweis, Sonia M. (author) DeMott, Paul J. (author) |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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Marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast Atlantic air masses |
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marine and terrestrial organic ice-nucleating particles in pristine marine to continentally influenced northeast atlantic air masses |
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