Birch and conifer pollen are efficient atmospheric ice nuclei
Birch and conifer pollen are efficient atmospheric ice nuclei
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桦树和针叶树花粉是有效的大气冰核
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2011
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通讯作者:
H. Grothe
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作者:
B. Pummer;H. Bauer;J. Bernardi;S. Bleicher;H. Grothe
Abstract The ice nucleation of bioaerosols (bacteria, pollen, spores, etc.) is a topic of grow-ing interest, since their impact on ice cloud formation and thus on radiative forcing, animportant parameter in global climate, is not yet fully understood. Here we show that 5 pollen of different species strongly differ in their ice nucleation behaviour. The aver-age freezing temperatures in laboratory experiments range from 240K to 255K. Asthe most efficient nuclei (silver birch, Scots pine and common juniper pollen) have adistribution area up to the Northern timberline, their ice nucleation activity may be acryoprotective mechanism. Far more intriguingly, it has turned out that water, which 10 has been in contact with pollen and then been separated from the bodies, nucleates asgood as the pollen grains themselves. So the ice nuclei have to be easily-suspendablemacromolecules located on the pollen surface. Once extracted, they can be distributedfurther through the atmosphere than the heavy pollen grains and so augment the im-pact of pollen on ice cloud formation even in the upper Troposphere. Our experiments
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3.3
作者:
Murray, B. J.;Broadley, S. L.;Murray, E. J.
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Murray, E. J.