Sentences with phrase «amounts of airborne particles»
NASA's A-train sensors such as the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on the Aura satellite and the MODIS on Aqua offer capabilities to measure the total amounts of airborne particles.
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Scientists have long believed that acids formed from human - generated pollution and natural emissions dissolve iron in airborne particles — increasing the amount of iron to the ocean — but have lacked direct evidence to prove this theory.
Because the climate model already accounts for the amount of the sun's energy blocked by different types of airborne particles, it was not a stretch to estimate the particles» effects on solar energy.
A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.
The neutralization of these airborne particles will help decrease the amount of static electricity in your home.
Fog forms around airborne particles, including pollutants, Dave Britton of the UK Met Office explains to the Guardian: «Go back to the 1950s and the big pea - soupers in London came from the amount of crap that people were putting out of their chimneys from coal fires.»
NASA's P - 3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how tiny airborne particles called aerosols change the properties of clouds and how they influence the amount of incoming sunlight the clouds reflect or absorb.