The formation of ice particles in the Earth's atmosphere strongly affects the properties of
clouds and their impact on climate. Despite the importance of ice formation in determining …

A small subset of the atmospheric aerosol population has the ability to induce ice formation
at conditions under which ice would not form without them (heterogeneous ice nucleation) …

In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

Ice particle formation in tropospheric clouds significantly changes cloud radiative and
microphysical properties. Ice nucleation in the troposphere via homogeneous freezing …

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 …

Mineral dust particles suspended in the atmosphere span more than three orders of
magnitude in diameter, from< 0.1 µm to more than 100 µm. This wide size range makes dust …

Terminology dealing with ice nucleation in the atmosphere, in biological systems, and in
other areas has not kept pace with the growth of empirical evidence and the development of …

Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are known to affect the amount of ice in mixed-phase clouds,
thereby influencing many of their properties. The atmospheric INP concentration changes by …

The ice nucleation of bioaerosols (bacteria, pollen, spores, etc.) is a topic of growing interest,
since their impact on ice cloud formation and thus on radiative forcing, an important …

Data from both laboratory studies and atmospheric measurements are used to develop an
empirical parameterization for the immersion freezing activity of natural mineral dust …