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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Atmospheric aerosols in Amazonia and land use change: from natural biogenic to biomass burning conditions

P Artaxo, LV Rizzo, JF Brito, HMJ Barbosa… - Faraday …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In the wet season, a large portion of the Amazon region constitutes one of the most pristine
continental areas, with very low concentrations of atmospheric trace gases and aerosol …