Articles | Volume 24, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5479-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5479-2024
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13 May 2024
Research article |  | 13 May 2024

Contribution of fluorescent primary biological aerosol particles to low-level Arctic cloud residuals

Gabriel Pereira Freitas, Ben Kopec, Kouji Adachi, Radovan Krejci, Dominic Heslin-Rees, Karl Espen Yttri, Alun Hubbard, Jeffrey M. Welker, and Paul Zieger

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Fluorescent primary biological aerosol particle concentrations in low-level Arctic cloud residuals in Svalbard 2019 – 2021 Gabriel Pereira Freitas et al. https://doi.org/10.17043/zeppelin-freitas-2023-bioclouds-1

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Bioaerosols can participate in ice formation within clouds. In the Arctic, where global warming manifests most, they may become more important as their sources prevail for longer periods of the year. We have directly measured bioaerosols within clouds for a full year at an Arctic mountain site using a novel combination of cloud particle sampling and single-particle techniques. We show that bioaerosols act as cloud seeds and may influence the presence of ice within clouds.
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