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Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans

Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since NASA researchers began assembling the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) in the 1990s, the worldwide network of ground-based aerosol sensors has grown to 400 sites across seven continents.





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Cosmic meddling with the clouds by seven-day magic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 9

Billions of tonnes of water droplets vanish from the atmosphere, as if by magic, in events that reveal in detail how the Sun and the stars control our everyday clouds. Researchers of the National Space Institute in the Technical ...


Hot dust and moisture collide to fuel Asian summer rainy season

Hot dust and moisture collide to fuel Asian summer rainy season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Who would think that something like dust in the air could trigger rain? According to a new NASA study, this is just what's happening over South Asia's Tibetan Plateau. Very small dust particles called aerosols ...


Researchers build lasers for NASA climate studies

Researchers build lasers for NASA climate studies

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA has given researchers at Montana State University $1.14 million to study two important, but poorly understood, pieces in the global-warming puzzle: aerosols and water vapor in the atmosphere.


Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 18, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 1

A scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric community when they suggested a few years back that tiny airborne particles, known as aerosols, may be one of the main ...



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