Not exact matches
India, another huge source of atmospheric
pollution, recently allowed European scientists to
measure its high - level
aerosols, an experiment that also includes flights into Nepal and Bangladesh.
Using aircraft to
measure air
pollution over the Alberta tar sands region, the researchers found that tar sands production emitted between 55 and 101 metric tonnes of secondary organic
aerosols per day.
This hemisphere difference is further amplified over European - African longitudes due to both natural (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation) and anthropogenic factors (decreased
aerosol pollution over Europe following stricter environmental
measures)-- both explained in more detail in our Sahel greening article.
By
measuring the amount of red and green in paintings, researchers have estimated past
aerosol pollution levels.
We always thought that — apart of course from soot [15 % of climate warming]-- such
aerosol pollution creates cooling — as in the case of Chinese sulfur
pollution and the Asian (Indian) brown cloud — and that air quality
measures over recent decades in North America and Europe are now actually a major cause of increased warming speeds there — as the actual temperature catches up on the «CO2 baseline».