Articles | Volume 14, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-9051-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-9051-2014
Research article
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02 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 02 Sep 2014

The contribution of fungal spores and bacteria to regional and global aerosol number and ice nucleation immersion freezing rates

D. V. Spracklen and C. L. Heald

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