News tagged with cloud ice
Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study
Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...
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Mar 31, 2012 |
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Clouds get in the way on Mars
The science team from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter wanted to take another look at a region of icy sand dunes on Mars to look for seasonal changes as spring is now arriving on the Red ...
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Cloud streets off of the Aleutian Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Strong winds polished the snow of southwestern Alaska and stretched marine stratocumulus clouds into long, parallel streets in early January, 2012. After crossing Bristol Bay, the winds scraped ...
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Predicting Arctic sea ice loss
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic clouds are strongly tied to Arctic sea ice loss. To find the strength of those ties, a team led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory tested a prominent climate model ...
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Ice heating up cold clouds
In the Arctic, competition within clouds is hot. The small amount of heat released when water vapor condenses on ice crystals in Arctic clouds, which contain both water and ice, determines the cloud's survival, ...
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Sep 21, 2011 |
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Brightening clouds: Atmospheric scientists evaluate a technique for reflecting more sunlight back to space
(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens when tiny seawater particles are intentionally injected into low clouds over the ocean? To answer this question, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National ...
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Aug 11, 2011 |
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Mission into ice clouds: Q&A with MACPEX pilot Bill Rieke
The Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) is a NASA field campaign that is investigating cirrus cloud properties and the processes that affect their impact on solar radiation. The campaign ...
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirty orange ...
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Feb 03, 2011 |
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Cold skies: Researchers increase our understanding of how ice clouds form
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of atmospheric researchers designed a new computational module that helps scientists better understand how ice crystals form in the atmosphere. The team, including Dr. Xiaohong Liu ...
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Nov 03, 2010 |
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The secret life of water at very low temperatures
The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases -- not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Melting sea ice major cause of warming in Arctic, new study reveals
Melting sea ice has been shown to be a major cause of warming in the Arctic according to a University of Melbourne, Australia study.
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Studying ice crystals to understand the cloud-climate connection
(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning in mid-December, scientists will undertake a special mission to squeeze the secrets out of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. The SPARTICUS, or Small Particles in Cirrus, campaign will ...
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Aircraft emissions could influence climate change through cloud formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aircraft emissions can affect the properties of cirrus clouds, contributing to climate change. This was a key finding from PNNL scientist Dr. Xiaohong Liu and his colleagues from a recent ...
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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First direct observations of biological particles in high-altitude ice clouds
A team of UC San Diego-led atmospheric chemistry researchers moved closer to what is considered the "holy grail" of climate change science when it made the first-ever direct detection of biological particles ...
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May 17, 2009 |
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Atmospheric lead causes clouds to form more easily, could change pattern of rain and snow
(PhysOrg.com) -- By sampling clouds -- and making their own -- researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice crystals that foster clouds. The ...
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Apr 19, 2009 |
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