Welcome

Welcome to the INUIT-BACCHUS-ACTRIS field project!
This blog is about a scientific project conducted in April 2016 on Cyprus.

We are an international team of researchers (funded by DFG, EU and other sources) investigating the ice forming properties of atmospheric aerosol particles. Ice formation in clouds is an important issue in the formation of rain, but also alters the radiative properties of clouds. Why Cyprus? Because there we expect to find lots of mineral dust (e.g. from the Sahara) in the air, and mineral dust particles are know to be good ice nucleation particles.
Me (Johannes Schneider from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany), I am responsible for the organisation of the DFG-funded (INUIT = Ice Nucleation Research Unit) part of the project. I will try to keep this blog updated in the next weeks.