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Iberulite fall and formation mechanism during a Sahara dust event in Switzerland in February 2021
Bernard Grobety
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Particle Vision GmbH, Passage du Cardinal 13B, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Geoscience Department, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Philippe Favreau
Service de l'air, du bruit et des rayonnements non ionisants (SABRA), Geneva Cantonal Office for the Environment, 1200 Geneva, Switzerland
Juanita Rausch
Particle Vision GmbH, Passage du Cardinal 13B, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
David Jaramillo-Vogel
Particle Vision GmbH, Passage du Cardinal 13B, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Martin Steinbacher
Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution and Environmental Technology, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
Christoph Neururer
Geoscience Department, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Thomas Laemmel, Dylan Geissbühler, Stephan Henne, Ryo Fujita, Heather Graven, Christophe Espic, Matthias Bantle, Negar Haghipour, Franz Conen, Dominik Brunner, Martin Steinbacher, Giulia Zazzeri, Samuel Hammer, Markus Leuenberger, and Sönke Szidat
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 4339–4371, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4339-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4339-2022, 2022
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Microscopic particles called ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are essential for ice crystals to form in clouds. INPs are a tiny proportion of atmospheric aerosol, and their abundance is poorly constrained. We study how the concentration of INPs changes diurnally and seasonally at a mountaintop station in central Europe. Unsurprisingly, a diurnal cycle is only found when considering air masses that have had lower-altitude ground contact. The highest INP concentrations occur in spring.
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Cyril Brunner, Benjamin T. Brem, Martine Collaud Coen, Franz Conen, Maxime Hervo, Stephan Henne, Martin Steinbacher, Martin Gysel-Beer, and Zamin A. Kanji
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 18029–18053, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-18029-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-18029-2021, 2021
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Special microscopic particles called ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are essential for ice crystals to form in the atmosphere. INPs are sparse and their atmospheric concentration and properties are not well understood. Mineral dust particles make up a significant fraction of INPs but how much remains unknown. Here, we address this knowledge gap by studying periods when mineral particles are present in large quantities at a mountaintop station in central Europe.
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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 16925–16953, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16925-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16925-2021, 2021
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We investigate ice-nucleating particle properties at Jungfraujoch during the 2017 joint INUIT/CLACE field campaign, to improve the knowledge about those rare particles in a cloud-relevant environment. By quantifying ice-nucleating particles in parallel to single-particle mass spectrometry measurements, we find that mineral dust and aged sea spray particles are potential candidates for ice-nucleating particles. Our findings are supported by ice residual analysis and source region modeling.
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The iberulite fall was, to our knowledge, the first reported in central Europe. What was special was that the fall was observed in situ and that the meteorological conditions during the fall are well known. The meteorology and the particle size distribution inside the iberulites strongly corroborate below-cloud scavenging as a probable formation mechanism. The discovery of further iberulites Saharan dust event (SDE) samples collected since suggests that iberulites are common but overlooked by other researchers.
The iberulite fall was, to our knowledge, the first reported in central Europe. What was special...
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