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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1313-1324Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1313-2016
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the Research Unit FOR 1525 (INUIT)
- EU FP7-ENV-2013 BACCHUS project [603445]
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Research Council FORMAS
- Nordic Top-Level Research Initiative CRAICC
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Recently significant advances have been made in the collection, detection and characterization of ice nucleating particles (INPs). Ice nuclei are particles that facilitate the heterogeneous formation of ice within the atmospheric aerosol by lowering the free energy barrier to spontaneous nucleation and growth of ice from atmospheric water and/or vapor. The Frankfurt isostatic diffusion chamber (FRankfurt Ice nucleation Deposition freezinG Experiment: FRIDGE) is an INP collection and offline detection system that has become widely deployed and shows additional potential for ambient measurements. Since its initial development FRIDGE has gone through several iterations and improvements. Here we describe improvements that have been made in the collection and analysis techniques. We detail the uncertainties inherent in the measurement method and suggest a systematic method of error analysis for FRIDGE measurements. Thus what is presented herein should serve as a foundation for the dissemination of all current and future measurements using FRIDGE instrumentation.
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