Articles | Volume 18, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15437-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15437-2018
Research article
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26 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 26 Oct 2018

Simulating the influence of primary biological aerosol particles on clouds by heterogeneous ice nucleation

Matthias Hummel, Corinna Hoose, Bernhard Pummer, Caroline Schaupp, Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky, and Ottmar Möhler

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Simulating the influence of primary biological aerosol particles on clouds by heterogeneous ice nucleation M. Hummel and C. Hoose https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000086437

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How important for clouds is the ability of biological particles to glaciate droplets at little supercooling? In a case study, the regional atmospheric model COSMO–ART is used. Perturbed and control runs are compared. The number of ice particles that are nucleated by biological particles is highest at around −10 °C. No significant influence on the average state of the cloud ice phase was found. However, the number of ice crystals is slightly enhanced in the absence of other ice nucleators.
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