Hot and dry conditions elevate grass pollen and sub-pollen particle concentrations in Melbourne, Australia

The authors would like to thank the following scientists from the UoM for their help and guidance in this work: Professor Ed Newbigin for the intact pollen measurements from the Burkard and SwisensPoleno Mars, useful discussions about these data and the experimental design, and access to laboratory resources; Darren Hocking for local field support; Manning Young for providing co-located meteorological measurements and Dr Usha Nattala for provision of ERA5 data. Thanks are also due to Dr Beth Ebert from the Bureau of Meteorology, for provision of lightning data and meteorological measurements from Olympic Park and Melbourne Airport. We thank the University of Melbourne for access to the field site and the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center at the University of Iowa for the loan of field sampling equipment (NIH P30 ES005605). We also acknowledge funding support from the Fulbright Future Fellowship funded by the Kinghorn Foundation (EAS); the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Australian Fulbright Commission (EAS); University of Iowa International Programs (EAS), Department of Chemistry (EAS), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (EAS), Graduate College (T. Anne Cleary Fellowship, CBAM); Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CBAM); and CSIRO strategic funding (KME). The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of these funding agencies.