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Key points AERONET operates more than 500 ground-based remote sensing sites around the globe measuring atmospheric ...
Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global ...
Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions.
Atmospheric scientists have long suspected that microscopic aerosol particles from industrial processes increase the brightness of clouds, resulting in greater reflection of sunlight and cooling ...
Of the nine critical planetary boundaries that humanity is transgressing, climate change is the best known and understood, while atmospheric aerosol pollution may be the least, but aerosols are ...
Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...
Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...
Scientists have mapped wind "rivers" in Earth’s atmosphere that are responsible for transporting huge quantities of aerosols around the planet. Particles that travel through these atmospheric ...
Atmospheric aerosols increase the number of cloud droplets in clouds and make them whiter, which means that they can more effectively reflect solar radiation back into space.
Aerosol particles are crucially important to the chemistry of the atmosphere, influencing both climate and air quality. This Review discusses progress in understanding the radical-initiated ...
Climate scientists say this will help them better understand how changing levels of different atmospheric aerosols impact the planet's energy balance and global temperature trends.
"The atmospheric lidar brings us completely new insight into the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols and, together with the other instruments, puts us on course to gaining new scientific ...