Global satellite data shows clouds will amplify global heating
A new approach to analyze satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.
A new approach to analyze satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2021
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Clouds play a key role in balancing incoming and outgoing solar and thermal radiation. This is a critical process in the earth-atmosphere system. Monitoring cloud height, particle size, particle concentration, etc. are integral ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2021
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Astronomers found a number of baby stars hiding around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous studies had suggested that the environment there is too harsh to form ...
Astronomy
Mar 29, 2021
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In a paper published today in the journal Science, the CLOUD collaboration at CERN shows that aerosol particles made of iodic acid can form extremely rapidly in the marine boundary layer—the portion of the atmosphere that ...
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2021
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University of Warwick astronomers have shown that water vapor can potentially be detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets by peering literally over the tops of their impenetrable clouds.
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2020
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While western U.S. states were suffering from hazy red skies from wildfires, Alaska was dealing with an air quality problem born a century ago.
Environment
Sep 16, 2020
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How much our world will warm this century depends on the actions we take in coming decades. In order to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C and avoid dangerous levels of warming, governments need to know how much carbon ...
Environment
Sep 11, 2020
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Early on May 18, 2020, Tropical Cyclone Amphan was a Category 5 storm in the Northern Indian Ocean. On May 19, satellite data from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite revealed that the storm has weakened and the eye was covered ...
Environment
May 19, 2020
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Physicists have been trying to observe the Kondo cloud quantum phenomenon for many decades. An international research team has recently developed a novel device that successfully measures the length of the Kondo cloud and ...
General Physics
Mar 11, 2020
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When clouds loft tropical air masses higher in the atmosphere, that air can carry up gases that form into tiny particles, starting a process that may end up brightening lower-level clouds, according to a CIRES-led study published ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2019
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