ArticleScience advances2021
Atmospheric aging enhances the ice nucleation ability of biomass-burning aerosol.
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- Sunlight can turn smoldering pine wood smoke into a glass.NPJ clean air · 2026Article
- Ice Nucleation Abilities and Chemical Characteristics of Laboratory-Generated and Aged Biomass Burning Aerosols.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Microfluidics for the biological analysis of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles: Perspectives and challenges.Biomicrofluidics · 2025Review
- Quantifying and Modeling the Impact of Phase State on the Ice Nucleation Abilities of 2-Methyltetrols as a Key Component of Secondary Organic Aerosol Derived from Isoprene Epoxydiols.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Weathering influences the ice nucleation activity of microplastics.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Uncovering the dominant contribution of intermediate volatility compounds in secondary organic aerosol formation from biomass-burning emissions.National science review · 2024Article
- Threefold reduction of modeled uncertainty in direct radiative effects over biomass burning regions by constraining absorbing aerosols.Science advances · 2023Article
- Bioaerosols are the dominant source of warm-temperature immersion-mode INPs and drive uncertainties in INP predictability.Science advances · 2023Article
- Volcanic ash ice nucleation activity is variably reduced by aging in water and sulfuric acid: the effects of leaching, dissolution, and precipitation.Environmental science: atmospheres · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in biomass-burning aerosol (BBA) that affect cloud glaciation, microphysics, precipitation, and radiative forcing were recently found to be driven by the production of mineral phases. BBA experiences extensive chemical aging as the smoke plume dilutes, and we explored how this alters the ice activity of the smoke using simulated atmospheric aging of authentic BBA in a chamber reactor. Unexpectedly, atmospheric aging enhanced the ice activity for most types of fuels and aging schemes. The removal of organic carbon particle coatings that conceal the mineral-based ice-active sites by evaporation or oxidation then dissolution can increase the ice activity by greater than an order of magnitude. This represents a different framework for the evolution of INPs from biomass burning where BBA becomes more ice active as it dilutes and ages, making a larger contribution to the INP budget, resulting cloud microphysics, and climate forcing than is currently considered.
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