Jesús Vergara Temprado

TL;DR: It is shown that organic material in the sea surface microlayer nucleates ice under conditions relevant for mixed-phase cloud and high-altitude ice cloud formation, and suggested that marine organic material may be an important source of ice-nucleating particles in remote marine environments.

TL;DR: The results show that the radiative properties of the most biased types of clouds in cyclonic systems are highly sensitive to the concentration of ice-nucleating particles, and low-level mixed-phase clouds in the cold sectors of extratropical cyclones are the most sensitive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the ice-nucleating properties of 15 well-characterised feldspar samples and found that alkali feldspars generally nucleate ice more efficiently than feldstars containing significant amounts of calcium in the plagioclase series.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the ice-nucleating properties of 15 characterized feldspar samples and found that the potassium-rich feldspars generally nucleate ice more efficiently than the sodium-rich ones.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a global model of INP concentrations relevant for mixed-phase clouds based on laboratory and field measurements of ice nucleation by K-feldspar (an ice active component of desert dust) and marine organic aerosols (from sea spray).