Bioaerosols in the atmosphere: A comprehensive review on detection methods, concentration and influencing factors

Z Huang, X Yu, Q Liu, T Maki, K Alam, Y Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-
19), the effects of atmospheric bioaerosols on human health, the environment, and climate …

Antarctic extreme events

MJ Siegert, MJ Bentley, A Atkinson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence that fossil-fuel burning, and consequential global heating of
1.1° C to date, has led to the increased occurrence and severity of extreme environmental …

Regionally sourced bioaerosols drive high-temperature ice nucleating particles in the Arctic

G Pereira Freitas, K Adachi, F Conen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Primary biological aerosol particles (PBAP) play an important role in the climate system,
facilitating the formation of ice within clouds, consequently PBAP may be important in …

Surface warming in Svalbard may have led to increases in highly active ice-nucleating particles

Y Tobo, K Adachi, K Kawai, H Matsui, S Ohata… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The roles of Arctic aerosols as ice-nucleating particles remain poorly understood, even
though their effects on cloud microphysics are crucial for assessing the climate sensitivity of …

Atmospheric resuspension of microplastics from bare soil regions

I Evangelou, D Tatsii, S Bucci… - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging as an atmospheric pollutant. Here, we present a method
of estimating MP resuspension with mineral dust in bare soil based on reported MP mass in …

Southern Alaska as a source of atmospheric mineral dust and ice-nucleating particles

SL Barr, B Wyld, JB McQuaid, RR Neely III… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) influence cloud radiative properties and climate; however,
INP sources and concentrations are poorly constrained, particularly in high-latitude regions …

African dust transport and deposition modelling verified through a citizen science campaign in Finland

O Meinander, R Kouznetsov, A Uppstu, M Sofiev… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
African desert dust is emitted and long-range transported with multiple effects on climate, air
quality, cryosphere, and ecosystems. On 21–23 February 2021, dust from a sand and dust …

High ice-nucleating particle concentrations associated with Arctic haze in springtime cold-air outbreaks

EN Raif, SL Barr, MD Tarn, JB McQuaid… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The global variation in ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations is an important modulator
of the cloud-phase feedback, where the albedo of mixed-phase clouds increases in a …

Dominant role of Arctic dust with high ice nucleating ability in the Arctic lower troposphere

K Kawai, H Matsui, Y Tobo - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations show that dust emitted within the Arctic (Arctic dust) has a remarkably
high ice nucleating ability, especially between− 20° C and− 5° C, but its impacts on the …

Highly active ice‐nucleating particles at the summer North Pole

GCE Porter, MP Adams, IM Brooks… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The amount of ice versus supercooled water in clouds is important for their radiative
properties and role in climate feedbacks. Hence, knowledge of the concentration of ice …