Study reveals urban smoke absorbs sunlight, exacerbating climate warming
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 09:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Cloaking urban areas and wildfire zones, tiny smoke particles suspended in the atmosphere have a sizeable effect on our climate. But the exact effect of many of these aerosols—such as how much sunlight they absorb, thus warming Earth, or reflecting back to space and so cooling Earth—is very uncertain.