Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 14:01
in Earth & Climate
Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. To find out, researchers need to incorporate this new-found warming into global climate models.
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