In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

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Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

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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 ...

The researchers drew their conclusions by abandoning popular climate models that they said in recent years have not ...

Sea spray aerosols, which form when ocean waves fling particles into the atmosphere, can impact climate in a variety of ways. But their small size and chemical complexity make them hard to study or ...

According to NASA, the PACE satellite can map atmospheric aerosols and differentiate how they absorb light and heat, characterizing them as "light" or "dark" in nature. Climate scientists say this ...

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 ...

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