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Surface warming in Svalbard may have led to increases in highly active ice-nucleating particles

Tobo, Yutaka; Adachi, Kouji; Kawai, Kei; Matsui, Hitoshi; Ohata, Sho; Oshima, Naga; Kondo, Yutaka; Hermansen, Ove; Uchida, Masaki; Inoue, Jun; Koike, Makoto

Publikasjonsdetaljer

Tidsskrift: Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 5, 516, 2024

Doi: doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01677-0

Sammendrag:
The roles of Arctic aerosols as ice-nucleating particles remain poorly understood, even though their effects on cloud microphysics are crucial for assessing the climate sensitivity of Arctic mixed-phase clouds and predicting their response to Arctic warming. Here we present a full-year record of ice-nucleating particle concentrations over Svalbard, where surface warming has been anomalously faster than the Arctic average. While the variation of ice-nucleating particles active at around −30 °C was relatively small, those active at higher temperatures (i.e., highly active ice-nucleating particles) tended to increase exponentially with rising surface air temperatures when the surface air temperatures rose above 0 °C and snow/ice-free barren and vegetated areas appeared in Svalbard. The aerosol population relevant to their increase was largely characterized by dust and biological organic materials that likely originated from local/regional terrestrial sources. Our results suggest that highly active ice-nucleating particles could be actively released from Arctic natural sources in response to surface warming.