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Biological and dust aerosols as sources of ice-nucleating particles in the eastern Mediterranean: source apportionment, atmospheric processing and parameterization
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and Their Impacts, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Franziska Vogel
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Romanos Foskinis
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and Their Impacts, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Physics Department, Laser Remote Sensing Unit (LRSU), National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Centre for Studies of Air Quality and Climate Change, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Patras, Greece
Stergios Vratolis
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Maria I. Gini
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Konstantinos Granakis
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Anne-Claire Billault-Roux
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paraskevi Georgakaki
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and Their Impacts, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Olga Zografou
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Prodromos Fetfatzis
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Alexis Berne
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alexandros Papayannis
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and Their Impacts, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Physics Department, Laser Remote Sensing Unit (LRSU), National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece
Konstantinos Eleftheridadis
ENvironmental Radioactivity & Aerosol Technology for atmospheric and Climate ImpacT Lab, INRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece
Ottmar Möhler
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Athanasios Nenes
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and Their Impacts, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Centre for Studies of Air Quality and Climate Change, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Patras, Greece
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- Fluorescent aerosol particles in the Finnish sub-Arctic during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022 campaign J. Gratzl et al. 10.5194/essd-17-3975-2025
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- Terrestrial and marine sources of ice nucleating particles in the Eurasian Arctic G. Li et al. 10.1039/D4FD00160E
- On the drivers of ice nucleating particle diurnal variability in Eastern Mediterranean clouds K. Gao et al. 10.1038/s41612-024-00817-9
- Fluorescent aerosol particles in the Finnish sub-Arctic during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022 campaign J. Gratzl et al. 10.5194/essd-17-3975-2025
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Ice Nucleating Particles (INP) remain one of the biggest sources of uncertainty when mechanistically predicting the properties of clouds and precipitation in meteorological and earth system models. This paper presents the results from some comprehensive in situ and remote sensing measurements of these aerosols at a mountaintop site in the Eastern Mediterranean, performing a highly detailed study of their sources and properties, including those of dust and bioaerosol. The results are then used to generate new parameterisations that can be applied in large-scale models, thus providing an observational basis for improving future predictions.
Ice Nucleating Particles (INP) remain one of the biggest sources of uncertainty when...
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Ice nucleating particle (INP) concentrations are required for correct predictions of clouds and precipitation in a changing climate, but they are poorly constrained in climate models. We unravel source contributions to INPs in the eastern Mediterranean and find that biological particles are important, regardless of their origin. The parameterizations developed exhibit superior performance and enable models to consider biological-particle effects on INPs.
Ice nucleating particle (INP) concentrations are required for correct predictions of clouds and...
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