Ryan H. Mason

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: It is shown that INPs are emitted using real wave breaking in a laboratory flume to produce sea spray aerosol (SSA) emissions, and the number concentrations of INPs from laboratory-generated SSA, when normalized to typical total aerosol number concentrations in the marine boundary layer, agree well with measurements from diverse regions over the oceans.

TL;DR: It is shown that the concentration of airborne biological particles in a North American forest ecosystem increases significantly during rain and that bioparticles are closely correlated with atmospheric ice nuclei (IN).

TL;DR: In this paper, 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 iceactive component of desert dust) and marine organic aerosols (from sea spray).

TL;DR: This study provides a general framework to relate the equilibrium thermodynamics of ice binding to a surface and the nonequilibrium ice freezing temperature and suggests that these could be predicted from the structure of interfacial water.