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Research article
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06 Jul 2016
Research article |
| 06 Jul 2016
The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN): an instrument to investigate ice nucleation
Sarvesh Garimella
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Thomas Bjerring Kristensen
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Karolina Ignatius
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Andre Welti
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Jens Voigtländer
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Gourihar R. Kulkarni
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA,
USA
Frank Sagan
Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO, USA
Gregory Lee Kok
Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO, USA
James Dorsey
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Leonid Nichman
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Daniel Alexander Rothenberg
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Michael Rösch
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Amélie Catharina Ruth Kirchgäßner
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Russell Ladkin
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Heike Wex
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Theodore W. Wilson
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Luis Antonio Ladino
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Jon P. D. Abbatt
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Olaf Stetzer
V-ZUG AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Ulrike Lohmann
Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
Switzerland
Frank Stratmann
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Daniel James Cziczo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA
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Short summary
The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN) is a commercially available ice nuclei counter manufactured by Droplet Measurement Technologies in Boulder, CO. This study characterizes the SPIN chamber, reporting data from laboratory measurements and quantifying uncertainties. Overall, we report that the SPIN is able to reproduce previous CFDC ice nucleation measurements.
The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN) is a commercially available ice nuclei counter...
