Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations

Aerosol–cloud interactions, particularly ice processes in mixed-phase clouds (MPCs), remain a key source of uncertainty in climate change assessments. This study introduces state-of-the-art laboratory-based parameterizations into a global chemistry–transport model to investigate the contributions of...

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Authors: Chatziparaschos, Marios, Myriokefalitakis, Stelios, Kalivitis, Nikos, Daskalakis, Nikos, Nenes, Athanasios, Gonçalves Ageitos, María|||0000-0003-3857-6403, Costa Surós, Montserrat, Pérez García-Pando, Carlos|||0000-0002-4456-0697, Vrekoussis, Mihalis, Kanakidou, Maria
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Climate change
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
title Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
spellingShingle Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
Chatziparaschos, Marios
Aerosol-cloud interactions
Climate change
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Mineralogia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental::Canvi climàtic
title_short Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
title_full Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
title_fullStr Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
title_sort Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Chatziparaschos, Marios
Myriokefalitakis, Stelios
Kalivitis, Nikos
Daskalakis, Nikos
Nenes, Athanasios
Gonçalves Ageitos, María|||0000-0003-3857-6403
Costa Surós, Montserrat
Pérez García-Pando, Carlos|||0000-0002-4456-0697
Vrekoussis, Mihalis
Kanakidou, Maria
author Chatziparaschos, Marios
author_facet Chatziparaschos, Marios
Myriokefalitakis, Stelios
Kalivitis, Nikos
Daskalakis, Nikos
Nenes, Athanasios
Gonçalves Ageitos, María|||0000-0003-3857-6403
Costa Surós, Montserrat
Pérez García-Pando, Carlos|||0000-0002-4456-0697
Vrekoussis, Mihalis
Kanakidou, Maria
author_role author
author2 Myriokefalitakis, Stelios
Kalivitis, Nikos
Daskalakis, Nikos
Nenes, Athanasios
Gonçalves Ageitos, María|||0000-0003-3857-6403
Costa Surós, Montserrat
Pérez García-Pando, Carlos|||0000-0002-4456-0697
Vrekoussis, Mihalis
Kanakidou, Maria
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aerosol-cloud interactions
Climate change
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Mineralogia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental::Canvi climàtic
topic Aerosol-cloud interactions
Climate change
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Mineralogia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental::Canvi climàtic
description Aerosol–cloud interactions, particularly ice processes in mixed-phase clouds (MPCs), remain a key source of uncertainty in climate change assessments. This study introduces state-of-the-art laboratory-based parameterizations into a global chemistry–transport model to investigate the contributions of mineral dust (specifically K-feldspar and quartz), marine primary organic aerosol (MPOA), and terrestrial primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) to ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in MPCs. The model suggests that INPs originating from PBAPs (INPPBAP) are the primary source of INPs at low altitudes between -10 and -20 °C, particularly in the tropics, with a pronounced peak in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the boreal summer. INPPBAP contributes over 40 % of the total simulated INP column burden at midlatitudes. Dust-derived INPs (INPD) are prominent at high altitudes across all seasons, dominating at temperatures below -20 °C, and they constitute over 89 % of the INP average column burden at high latitudes in the NH and about 74 % at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). MPOA-derived INPs (INPMPOA) prevail in the SH at low altitudes, particularly at subpolar and polar latitudes for temperatures above -20 °C, where they represent between 17 % and 36 % of the INP column population, depending on the season. When evaluated against available global observational INP data, the model achieves its highest predictability across all temperature ranges when both INPD and INPMPOA are included as independent INP sources. The addition of INPPBAP does not enhance the model’s ability to reproduce the available observations; however, INPPBAP remains a key contributor to warm-temperature icenucleation events. Therefore, consideration of dust, marine aerosol, and terrestrial bioaerosols as distinct INP species is required to simulate ice nucleation in climate models
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spelling Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrationsChatziparaschos, MariosMyriokefalitakis, SteliosKalivitis, NikosDaskalakis, NikosNenes, AthanasiosGonçalves Ageitos, María|||0000-0003-3857-6403Costa Surós, MontserratPérez García-Pando, Carlos|||0000-0002-4456-0697Vrekoussis, MihalisKanakidou, MariaAerosol-cloud interactionsClimate changeÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::MineralogiaÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental::Canvi climàticAerosol–cloud interactions, particularly ice processes in mixed-phase clouds (MPCs), remain a key source of uncertainty in climate change assessments. This study introduces state-of-the-art laboratory-based parameterizations into a global chemistry–transport model to investigate the contributions of mineral dust (specifically K-feldspar and quartz), marine primary organic aerosol (MPOA), and terrestrial primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) to ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in MPCs. The model suggests that INPs originating from PBAPs (INPPBAP) are the primary source of INPs at low altitudes between -10 and -20 °C, particularly in the tropics, with a pronounced peak in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the boreal summer. INPPBAP contributes over 40 % of the total simulated INP column burden at midlatitudes. Dust-derived INPs (INPD) are prominent at high altitudes across all seasons, dominating at temperatures below -20 °C, and they constitute over 89 % of the INP average column burden at high latitudes in the NH and about 74 % at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). MPOA-derived INPs (INPMPOA) prevail in the SH at low altitudes, particularly at subpolar and polar latitudes for temperatures above -20 °C, where they represent between 17 % and 36 % of the INP column population, depending on the season. When evaluated against available global observational INP data, the model achieves its highest predictability across all temperature ranges when both INPD and INPMPOA are included as independent INP sources. The addition of INPPBAP does not enhance the model’s ability to reproduce the available observations; however, INPPBAP remains a key contributor to warm-temperature icenucleation events. Therefore, consideration of dust, marine aerosol, and terrestrial bioaerosols as distinct INP species is required to simulate ice nucleation in climate modelsThis work has been supported by the European Union Horizon 2020 project FORCeS under grant agreement no. 821205. The early stages of this work have been supported by the project “PANhellenic infrastructure for Atmospheric Composition and climatE change” (PANACEA; MIS 5021516), which is implemented under the Action “Reinforcement of the Research and Innovation Infrastructure”, funded by the Operational Programme “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation” (NSRF 2014–2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). Nikos Daskalakis, Maria Kanakidou, and Mihalis Vrekoussis were supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy (University Allowance, EXC 2077, University of Bremen). Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Montserrat Costa-Surós, María Gonçalves Ageitos, and Marios Chatziparaschos were supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant no. 773051; FRAGMENT), the Horizon Europe program (Grant Agreement no. 101137680 via project CERTAINTY), and the AXA Research Fund. Montserrat Costa-Surós has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreements, reference 754433 from the call H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016. Athanasios Nenes was supported by project PyroTRACH (ERC-2016- COG) funded from H2020-EU.1.1. – Excellent Science – European Research Council (ERC), project ID 726165, and the European Union’s Horizon Europe project “CleanCloud” (grant agreement no. 101137639). Stelios Myriokefalitakis, Maria Kanakidou, and Marios Chatziparaschos were supported by the REINFORCE research project implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call “Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)” under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU (H.F.R.I. project no. 15155).European Geosciences Union (EGU)20252025-08-2020252025-10-20journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/444074https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-9085-2025reponame:UPCommons. 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