Atmospheric ice nucleation

DA Knopf, PA Alpert - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric ice nucleation is crucial for global precipitation and affects the structure, lifetime
and reflectivity of clouds, thereby impacting climate. Ice nucleates in various ways from …

Aerosol optical and radiative properties and their environmental effects in China: A review

H Che, X **a, H Zhao, L Li, K Gui, Y Zheng, J Song… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aerosols are important atmospheric constituents with significant impacts on both regional air
quality and the global climate and environment. Aerosol effects on radiation, clouds and …

The role of organic aerosol in atmospheric ice nucleation: A review

DA Knopf, PA Alpert, B Wang - ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite …

H Yu, M Chin, T Yuan, H Bian, LA Remer… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The productivity of the Amazon rainforest is constrained by the availability of nutrients, in
particular phosphorus (P). Deposition of long‐range transported African dust is recognized …

The automated multiwavelength Raman polarization and water-vapor lidar PollyXT: the neXT generation

R Engelmann, T Kanitz, H Baars… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - amt.copernicus.org
The atmospheric science community demands autonomous and quality-assured vertically
resolved measurements of aerosol and cloud properties. For this purpose, a portable lidar …

An overview of the first decade of Polly: an emerging network of automated Raman-polarization lidars for continuous aerosol profiling

H Baars, T Kanitz, R Engelmann… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
A global vertically resolved aerosol data set covering more than 10 years of observations at
more than 20 measurement sites distributed from 63∘ N to 52∘ S and 72∘ W to 124∘ E has …

The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

MO Andreae, OC Acevedo, A Araùjo… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The Amazon Basin plays key roles in the carbon and water cycles, climate change,
atmospheric chemistry, and biodiversity. It has already been changed significantly by human …

Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling

P Knippertz, MC Todd - Reviews of Geophysics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric mineral dust has recently become an important research field in Earth system
science because of its impacts on radiation, clouds, atmospheric dynamics and chemistry …

Characterizing the annual cycle of African dust transport to the Caribbean Basin and South America and its impact on the environment and air quality

JM Prospero, FX Collard, J Molinié… - Global …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of aerosol measurements on Barbados have yielded a detailed picture of African
mineral dust transport to the Caribbean Basin that shows a strong seasonal cycle with a …

African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean

AE Barkley, JM Prospero… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The deposition of phosphorus (P) from African dust is believed to play an important role in
bolstering primary productivity in the Amazon Basin and Tropical Atlantic Ocean (TAO) …