Ice nucleating particle concentrations at Macquarie Island, 2017/8

• Main Authors: Hill, Thomas, DeMott, Paul
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Antarc*; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1638330; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1638330; https://doi.org/10.5439/1638330

These data list ice nucleating particle (INP) number concentrations active in the immersion freezing mode. Aerosol filters were collected during late March 2017 to March 2018 as part of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE), located at the Australian Antarctic Division's Macquarie Island station. Collections were made over alternating periods of 48 and 72 hours using open-faced polycarbonate filters that were approximately 4 m MSL, sited near the main AAD station on the island, at -54.4997 deg latitude and 158.9344 deg longitude. The volume of air filtered ranged from 5000 to 60000 volumetric liters per filter sample. Filters were stored and returned frozen to Colorado State University (CSU), where immersion freezing measurements over a range from 0 to -28 C were made using the CSU Ice Spectrometer (IS). Collected particles from each filter were resuspended in filtered, deionized water, and then dispensed into the IS and cooled to obtain cumulative INP temperature spectra. Aliquots of suspensions from selected samples were also heat treated (95 C for 20 min) to denature and deactivate biological INPs, and digested in 10% H2O2 at 95 C under UV-B for 20 min to remove all organic carbon INPs, prior to measurement using the IS.