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Adams, Michael P. and Tarn, Mark D. and Sanchez-Marroquin, Alberto and Porter, Grace C. E. and O'Sullivan, Daniel and Harrison, Alexander D. and Cui, Zhiqiang and Vergara-Temprado, Jesús and Carotenuto, Federico and Holden, Mark and Daily, Martin I. and Whale, Thomas F. and Sikora, Sebastien N. F. and Burke, Ian T. and Shim, Jung-uk and McQuaid, James B. and Murray, Benjamin J. (2020) A major combustion aerosol event had a negligible impact on the atmospheric ice-nucleating particle population. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/809

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Clouds containing supercooled water are important for both climate and weather, but our knowledge of which aerosol particle types nucleate ice in these clouds is far from complete. Combustion aerosols have strong anthropogenic sources and if these aerosol types were to nucleate ice in clouds they might exert a climate forcing. Here, we quantified the atmospheric ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations during the UK’s annual Bonfire Night celebrations, which are characterised by strong anthropogenic emissions of combustion aerosol. We used three immersion mode techniques covering more than six orders of magnitude in INP concentration over the temperature range from −10 °C to homogeneous freezing. We found no observable systematic change in the INP concentration on three separate nights, despite more than a factor of 10 increase in aerosol number concentrations, up to a factor of 10 increase in PM10 concentration and more than a factor of 100 increase in black carbon (BC) mass concentration relative to pre-event levels. This implies that BC and other combustion aerosol such as ash did not compete with the INPs present in the background air. Furthermore, the upper limit of the ice-active site surface density, ns(T), of BC was shown to be consistent with several other recent laboratory studies, showing a very low ice-nucleating activity of BC. We conclude that combustion aerosol particles similar to those emitted on Bonfire Night are at most of secondary importance for the INP population relevant for mixed-phase clouds in typical mid-latitude terrestrial locations.

Keywords:	Ice nucleation, clouds and aerosol, climate, cloud phase, super-cooled droplets, black carbon, Bonfire night
Divisions:	Faculty of Environment > School of Earth and Environment > Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
Related resources:	Location Type https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032938 Publication https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/166953/ Publication https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28908/ Ethesis
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	14 Oct 2020 10:33
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/756
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Adams, Michael P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9555-1264 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Tarn, Mark D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5827-4125 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Sanchez-Marroquin, Alberto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-4551 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Porter, Grace C. E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8027-6549 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror O'Sullivan, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-8046 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Harrison, Alexander D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1522-0391 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Cui, Zhiqiang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0769-8937 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Vergara-Temprado, Jesús https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-0946 ETH Zurich https://ror.org/05a28rw58 ror Carotenuto, Federico https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-3073 CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italia https://ror.org/04zaypm56 ror Holden, Mark https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3060-7615 University of Central Lancashire https://ror.org/010jbqd54 ror Daily, Martin I. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8387-1394 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Whale, Thomas F. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-2685 University of Warwick https://ror.org/01a77tt86 ror Sikora, Sebastien N. F. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-8837 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Burke, Ian T. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0484-568X University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Shim, Jung-uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4577-1952 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror McQuaid, James B. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8702-0415 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Murray, Benjamin J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8198-8131 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Research funders: ERC H2020, ERC H2020, NERC, NERC, EU FP7, EPSRC Grant numbers: 648661, 713664, NE/M010473/1, NE/L013479/1, 603445, EP/M003027/1 Publication date: 2020 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Research project title: MarineIce, CryoProtect Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: eempa@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 03 Sep 2024 11:04

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