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 ...

Aerosols are fine particulates that float in the atmosphere. Many are natural, but those haven’t increased or decreased much over the centuries.

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 ...

Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions. Rising 2,225 meters into the air on ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

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 ...

Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...

The spatial distribution of ambient aerosol particles plays a huge role in aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions; however, not enough sampling has been done from the atmospheric boundary layer ...

UCSD Chemist Kimberly Prather Wins Award for ‘Revolutionary’ Atmospheric Aerosol Research by Elizabeth Ireland • Times of San Diego Jan. 22, 2024, 10:30 p.m. Jan. 23, 2024, 6:42 a.m.

Atmospheric aerosols are particles that are 100–10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair, and their concentration in the atmosphere is in the range of hundreds to hundreds of thousands per ...