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Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-183-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-183-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
Research article
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08 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 08 Jan 2025

Can pollen affect precipitation?

Marje Prank, Juha Tonttila, Xiaoxia Shang, Sami Romakkaniemi, and Tomi Raatikainen

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Large primary bioparticles such as pollen can be abundant in the atmosphere. In humid conditions pollen can rupture and release a large number of fine sub-pollen particles (SPPs). The paper investigates what kind of birch pollen concentrations are needed for the pollen and SPPs to start playing a noticeable role in cloud processes and alter precipitation formation. In the studied cases only the largest observed pollen concentrations were able to noticeably alter the precipitation formation.
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