Continuous online monitoring of ice-nucleating particles: development of the automated Horizontal Ice Nucleation Chamber (HINC-Auto)

Brunner, Cyril; Kanji, Zamin A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-269-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-269-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-269-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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14 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 14 Jan 2021

Continuous online monitoring of ice-nucleating particles: development of the automated Horizontal Ice Nucleation Chamber (HINC-Auto)

Cyril Brunner and Zamin A. Kanji

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RC1: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Answer to RC1', Cyril Brunner, 23 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Reviews for Brunner and Kanji paper', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Answer to RC2', Cyril Brunner, 23 Nov 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Zamin A. Kanji on behalf of the Authors (24 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Nov 2020) by Mingjin Tang

AR by Zamin A. Kanji on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2020)

Short summary

Subvisual microscopic particles in the atmosphere are needed to act as seeds for cloud droplets or ice crystals to form. The microscopic particles, called ice-nucleating particles (INPs), form ice crystals and are rare, and their properties are not well understood, in part because measuring them is challenging and time consuming, and to date has not been automated. Here, we present the first online instrument that can continuously and autonomously measure INP concentration at 243 K.