Building a comprehensive understanding of ice nuclei sources from the ground up: Establishing the impact of sea spray and agricultural soils
This project will improve our knowledge of the sources of
ice-nucleating particles
that allow ice crystals to form in the atmosphere. Our research is advancing understanding of how two less-studied but important particle types contribute to determining real-world ice nucleus concentrations, and tackling the grand challenge of predicting ice nucleus concentration from the observed characteristics and sources of atmospheric particles.
Keywords | aerosol-cloud interactions, Ice-nucleating particles, primary biological aerosol particles, source estimation and attribution for global climate models |
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TYPE | Early Career |
![The upper half of this illustration shows farm, fields, and hills with a building and cloud above it. The lower half of the image shows an abstract block-like depiction of the same image.](/content/images/project/building-a-comprehensive-understanding-of-ice-nuclei-140.jpg)
A new review article led by a team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory analyzes the literature surrounding how researchers model and measure ice-nucleating particles. (Illustration by Cortland Johnson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)