Climate impact of clouds made from airplane contrails may triple by 2050
Credit: Bock and Burkhardt, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2019 In the right conditions, airplane contrails can linger in the sky as ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Significant UK air quality improvements over past 40 years cut death rates
Policies to improve air quality in the UK over the past 40 years have led to significant reductions in pollution ...
Department of Energy announces $13 million for atmospheric research
27 projects aim to improve predictive power of computer models WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
New research shows how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the sea
The findings of a research expedition to coastal Greenland which examined, for the first time, how melting ice is affecting ...
Which climates are best for passive cooling technologies?
If you guessed locations with drier atmospheres and frequent clear skies, you're rightCredit: Carlos Coimbra WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2019 ...
Conceptual model can explain how thunderstorm clouds bunch together
Credit: Jan Härter Understanding how the weather and climate change is one of the most important challenges in science today. ...
Study finds link between hypertension and air pollution
A new study soon to appear in the Journal of Public Health suggests that air pollution and living in apartment ...
Clouds dominate uncertainties in predicting future Greenland melt
Credit: University of Bristol New research led by climate scientists from the University of Bristol suggests that the representation of ...
Northern lights’ social networking reveals true scale of magnetic storms
Magnetic disturbances caused by phenomena like the northern lights can be tracked by a 'social network' of ground-based instruments, according ...
Do ice cores help to unravel the clouds of climate history?
International team measures ice nuclei from Arctic clouds of the past 500 years for the first timeCredit: Photo: Heike Wex, ...
Green light for CASUS, the institute for data intensive systems research
Germany's Federal Government and the Free State of Saxony invest in shaping structural change on the German-Polish borderCredit: HZDR With ...
Why does the moon smell like gunpowder? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 -- After walking on the moon, astronauts hopped back into their ...
US military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries — massive hidden impact on climate
The US military's carbon footprint is enormous and must be confronted in order to have a substantial effect on battling ...
Researchers lay out plan for managing rivers for climate change
Credit: Kevin Bladon CORVALLIS, Ore. - New strategies for river management are needed to maintain water supplies and avoid big ...
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