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Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans
(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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Jun 29, 2009 |
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New map provides global view of health-sapping air pollution (w/ Video)
In many developing countries, the absence of surface-based air pollution sensors makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to get even a rough estimate of the abundance of a subcategory of airborne ...
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Sep 23, 2010 |
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One of NASA’s most widely used sensor networks resides on firm ground
NASA’s known best for sending humans to the Moon and rovers to Mars, but one of the agency’s most widely used sensor networks resides right here on terra firma. Called the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), it’s one of the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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GKSS scientists make statements on concentration of ash particles after volcanic eruption
Some German airlines levelled their criticism against the forecasts of the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in London on the spread of the ash cloud over Europe, as these forecasts did not provide any precise ...
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May 11, 2010 |
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Cosmic meddling with the clouds by seven-day magic
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 ...
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Aug 01, 2009 |
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Researchers build lasers for NASA climate studies
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.
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Hot dust and moisture collide to fuel Asian summer rainy season
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 ...
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Sep 07, 2006 |
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Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change
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 ...
Jul 18, 2006 |
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