Best practices for precipitation sample storage for offline studies of ice nucleation in marine and coastal environments

Beall, Charlotte M.; Lucero, Dolan; Hill, Thomas C.; DeMott, Paul J.; Stokes, M. Dale; Prather, Kimberly A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6473-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6473-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6473-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Research article

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03 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 03 Dec 2020

Best practices for precipitation sample storage for offline studies of ice nucleation in marine and coastal environments

Charlotte M. Beall, Dolan Lucero, Thomas C. Hill, Paul J. DeMott, M. Dale Stokes, and Kimberly A. Prather

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6473-2020-supplement

Data sets

Data from: Best practices for precipitation sample storage for offline studies of ice nucleation in marine and coastal environments C. M. Beall, D. Lucero, T. C. Hill, P. J. DeMott, M. D. Stokes, and K. A. Prather https://doi.org/10.6075/J0M32T8B

Short summary

Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) can influence multiple climate-relevant cloud properties. Previous studies report INP observations from precipitation samples that were stored prior to analysis, yet storage protocols vary widely, and little is known about how storage impacts INPs. This study finds that storing samples at −20 °C best preserves INP concentrations and that significant losses of small INPs occur across all storage protocols.