Biogeosciences www.biogeosciences.net 1726-4170 1726-4189 4 6 2007 10.5194/bg-4-1059-2007 http://www.biogeosciences.net/4/1059/2007/ http://www.biogeosciences.net/4/1059/2007/bg-4-1059-2007.html http://www.biogeosciences.net/4/1059/2007/bg-4-1059-2007.pdf 1059 1071 2007-12-03 Microbiology and atmospheric processes: the role of biological particles in cloud physics O. Möhler ottmar.moehler@imk.fzk.de P. J. DeMott G. Vali Z. Levin Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-AAF), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel As part of a series of papers on the sources, distribution and potential impact of biological particles in the atmosphere, this paper introduces and summarizes the potential role of biological particles in atmospheric clouds. Biological particles like bacteria or pollen may be active as both cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and heterogeneous ice nuclei (IN) and thereby can contribute to the initial cloud formation stages and the development of precipitation through giant CCN and IN processes. 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