A 2013 computer simulation of this process found increased aerosols alone did result in more lightning due to ice crystal collisions, although at very large
aerosol volumes the effect was muted.
Not exact matches
Despite its smaller ash cloud, El Chichn emitted more than 40 times the
volume of sulfur - rich gases produced by Mt. St. Helens, which revealed that the formation of atmospheric sulfur
aerosols has a more substantial
effect on global temperatures than simply the
volume of ash produced during an eruption.
If those
aerosols canceled the warming
effect of fossil fuel emissions from 1940 - 1979, as has been claimed, then they would have had the same
effect prior to 1940, regardless of whether the
volume of both CO2 emissions and
aerosol emissions were smaller.
V 323: If those
aerosols canceled the warming
effect of fossil fuel emissions from 1940 - 1979, as has been claimed, then they would have had the same
effect prior to 1940, regardless of whether the
volume of both CO2 emissions and
aerosol emissions were smaller.
They concluded that with a bit of help from changes in solar output and natural climatic cycles such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the growth in the
volume of
aerosols being pumped up power station chimneys was probably enough to block the warming
effect of rising greenhouse gas emissions over the period 1998 - 2008.