(PhysOrg.com) -- Some make the cut, some don't. Like auditions for the school play, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Goethe-University Frankfurt were looking for promising atmospheric particles that ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2011
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Researchers have found that areas near commercial airports sometimes experience a small but measurable increase in rain and snow when aircraft take off and land under certain atmospheric conditions.
Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2011
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Bonfire Night celebrations contaminate our air with hugely elevated amounts of soot, scientists have found.
Environment
Nov 5, 2020
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When wildfires burn, they catapult smoke into the atmosphere. These plumes are loaded with tiny particles that act as magnets for water droplets sitting in clouds—the more smoky particles ejected into the sky, the more ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2021
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As the ice in the clouds melts into droplets, they reflect more sunlight. But in the end there is no more ice left to melt.
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2020
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Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2,000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2018
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Italy's Mount Etna has turned on again, spewing lava and gas in its first big eruption in 2013. The volcano is one of the most active in the world, and is Europe's tallest active volcano, currently standing about 3,329 m ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2013
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ETH Zurich researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process—for example, the formation ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wrapped in mystery, the formation of a cloud droplet comes down to physics. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led a research team that has helped peel away another layer of the cloud droplet conundrum. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2011
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A team of atmospheric scientists from around the nation is descending on the Houston, Texas, area for the next 14 months to seek answers to a vexing question: Do tiny specks of soot, dust, smoke, and other particles suspended ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2021
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