Articles | Volume 18, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13755-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13755-2018
Research article
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28 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2018

Agricultural harvesting emissions of ice-nucleating particles

Kaitlyn J. Suski, Tom C. J. Hill, Ezra J. T. Levin, Anna Miller, Paul J. DeMott, and Sonia M. Kreidenweis

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The harvesting of crops emits large amounts of particles into the air. These particles can form and interact with clouds to alter cloud properties and precipitation, but the magnitude of these effects is unknown. This study looked at the ability of harvest particles to form ice in clouds by sampling with an ice nucleation chamber downwind of fields being harvested. Some crops emitted large amounts of ice-nucleating particles, and harvest emissions are mixtures of organics, soil, and minerals.
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