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Ice-nucleating particles in precipitation samples from the Texas Panhandle
Hemanth S. K. Vepuri
Department of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA
Cheyanne A. Rodriguez
Department of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA
Dimitrios G. Georgakopoulos
Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Dustin Hume
Office of Information Technology, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA
James Webb
Office of Information Technology, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA
Gregory D. Mayer
Department of Environmental Toxicology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Department of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA
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Due to a high frequency of storm events, West Texas is an ideal location to study ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in severe precipitation. Our results present that cumulative INP concentration in our precipitation samples below −20 °C could be high in the samples collected while observing > 10 mm h−1 precipitation with notably large hydrometeor sizes and an implication of cattle feedyard bacteria inclusion. Marine bacteria were found in a subset of our precipitation and cattle feedyard samples.
Due to a high frequency of storm events, West Texas is an ideal location to study ice-nucleating...
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