Publications by Ivo Fabio Beck

Observations of high-time-resolution and size-resolved aerosol chemical composition and microphysics in the central Arctic: implications for climate-relevant particle properties

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Andrea Baccarini, Lubna Dada, Hélène Paule Angot, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Nora Bergner, Markus Frey

Aerosols play a critical role in the Arctic's radiative balance, influencing solar radiation and cloud formation. Limited observations in the central Arctic leave gaps in understanding aerosol dynamics year-round, affecting model predictions of climate-rel ...

Copernicus GmbH2025

Characteristics and effects of aerosols during blowing snow events in the central Arctic

Jian Wang, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Nora Bergner, Michael Lonardi

Sea salt aerosol (SSaer) significantly impacts aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud interactions, and sublimated blowing snow is hypothesized to be an important SSaer source in polar regions. Understanding blowing snow and other wind-sourced aerosols’ clima ...

University of California Press2025

Ice nucleating particle sources and transports between the Central and Southern Arctic regions during winter cold air outbreaks

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck

Ice nucleating particles (INPs) initiate ice formation, affecting the liquid versus ice distribution and radiative properties of clouds. INPs have been measured around the Arctic, but few INP concentration measurements have been reported for air during mov ...

University of California Press2025

Characteristics and sources of fluorescent aerosols in the central Arctic Ocean

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Margarida Teles Nogueira Rolo, Hélène Paule Angot, Oliver Müller, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Nora Bergner, Alireza Moallemi, Markus Frey

The Arctic is sensitive to cloud radiative forcing. Due to the limited number of aerosols present throughout much of the year, cloud formation is susceptible to the presence of cloud condensation nuclei and ice nucleating particles (INPs). Primary biologic ...

2024

The annual cycle and sources of relevant aerosol precursor vapors in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC expedition

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Hélène Paule Angot

In this study, we present and analyze the first continuous time series of relevant aerosol precursor vapors from the central Arctic (north of 80°N) during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. These ...

Copernicus Publications2024

Aerosol sources and seasonality over the central Arctic Ocean

Ivo Fabio Beck

Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nucleating particles (INP) play an important role in the Arctic climate as they determine cloud properties and, thereby, the surface energy balance, which is strongly linked to the accelerated warming of the Arctic. ...

EPFL2024

Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) concentrations measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Hélène Paule Angot, Nora Bergner

This dataset contains CCN concentrations at five supersaturation levels, averaged to 1 min time resolution, measured during the year-long Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition from October 2019 to Septem ...

2023

Aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven wavelengths in 10 min resolution measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven different wavelengths (babs(λ)), averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed ...

Zenodo2023

Modelling the coupled mercury-halogen-ozone cycle in the central Arctic during spring

Jenny Thomas, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot

Near-surface mercury and ozone depletion events occur in the lowest part of the atmosphere during Arctic spring. Mercury depletion is the first step in a process that transforms long-lived elemental mercury to more reactive forms within the Arctic that are ...

2023

Temperature and relative humidity in 10 min time resolution measured in the total inlet of the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck

This dataset contains the temperature and relative humidity in a bypass to the total inlet, measured during the MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed in the bypass interstitial inlet of the Swiss container o ...

Zenodo2023

Measurements of aerosol microphysical and chemical properties in the central Arctic atmosphere during MOSAiC

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Hélène Paule Angot, Nora Bergner

The Arctic environment is transforming rapidly due to climate change. Aerosols’ abundance and physicochemical characteristics play a crucial, yet uncertain, role in these changes due to their influence on the surface energy budget through direct interactio ...

2023

Bulk size-resolved chemical composition and mass concentration of non-refractory submicron aerosols measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Hélène Paule Angot, Imad El Haddad

This dataset contains the bulk size-resolved chemical composition and mass concentration of non-refractory submicron aerosols (NR-PM1) measured during the MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to July 2020. These include the mass concentrations of sulfate (S ...

Zenodo2023

Widespread detection of chlorine oxyacids in the Arctic atmosphere

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot

Observations are reported of HClO3 and HClO4 in the atmosphere and their widespread occurrence over the pan-Arctic during spring, providing further insights into atmospheric chlorine cycling in the polar environment. ...

Nature Portfolio2023

The Marginal Ice Zone as a dominant source region of atmospheric mercury during central Arctic summertime

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot

Atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) concentrations in the Arctic exhibit a clear summertime maximum, while the origin of this peak is still a matter of debate in the community. Based on summertime observations during the Multidisciplinary drifting ...

Nature Research2023

Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features

Ilker Fer, Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Oliver Müller

2023

Continuous corrected particle number concentration data in 10 sec resolution measured in the Swiss aerosol container using a whole air inlet during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck

This dataset contains corrected particle number concentration data measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. Some periods of the measurements were affected by repeated step changes in the particle number concentra ...

Zenodo2023

Aerodynamic Particle Sizer spectrometer (APS) aerosol number concentrations, measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Nora Bergner

This dataset contains particle number size distributions between 1.06-16.1 μm (aerodynamic diameter) and total concentration averaged to 1 min time resolution, measured with a commercial Aerodynamic Particle Sizer spectrometer (APS model 3321, TSI Incorpor ...

Zenodo2023

Wideband integrated bioaerosol sensor (WIBS) excited, fluorescent, and hyper-fluorescent particle number concentrations and normalized size distributions (dN/dlogDp) measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Margarida Teles Nogueira Rolo, Alireza Moallemi

These datasets contain the total particle number concentrations and normalized size distributions (dN/dlogDp) of excited, fluorescent, and hyper-fluorescent particles of sizes 0.5 to 20 μm (optical diameter). The normalized size distribution datasets are s ...

Zenodo2023

Low ozone dry deposition rates to sea ice during the MOSAiC field campaign: Implications for the Arctic boundary layer ozone budget

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot

Dry deposition to the surface is one of the main removal pathways of tropospheric ozone (O3). We quantified for the first time the impact of O3 deposition to the Arctic sea ice on the planetary boundary layer (PBL) O3 concentration and budget using year-ro ...

2023

Pollution mask for the continuous corrected particle number concentration data in 1 min time resolution measured in the Swiss aerosol container using a whole air inlet during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Andrea Baccarini, Hélène Paule Angot

This dataset contains particle number concentrations and a pollution flag in 1 min time resolution. It is derived by the pollution detection algorithm (PDA, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5761101) based on the corrected particle number concentration data of the CPC377 ...

Zenodo2023