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Articles | Volume 19, issue 17
Articles | Volume 19, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11343-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11343-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 17
Research article
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09 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2019

The ice-nucleating ability of quartz immersed in water and its atmospheric importance compared to K-feldspar

Alexander D. Harrison, Katherine Lever, Alberto Sanchez-Marroquin, Mark A. Holden, Thomas F. Whale, Mark D. Tarn, James B. McQuaid, and Benjamin J. Murray

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Mineral dusts are a source of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in the atmosphere. Here we present a comprehensive survey of the ice-nucleating ability of naturally occurring quartz. We show the ice-nucleating variability of quartz and its sensitivity to time spent in water and air. We propose four new parameterizations for the minerals quartz, K feldspar, albite and plagioclase to predict INP concentrations in the atmosphere and show that K-feldspar is the dominant INP type in mineral dusts.
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