Sentences with phrase «atmospheric dust particles»

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In the clouds in her model, atmospheric gas would sometimes condense onto the shimmering dust particles, increasing in size to a few millimeters big.

Schneider coauthored a 1971 article in the journal Science about atmospheric aerosols — floating particles of soil dust, volcanic ash, and human - made pollutants.

A trip to Iceland and a flight over the Sahara Desert help an atmospheric scientist study dust particles that seed clouds

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

It can attach to dust particles and rain out of the sky, in a process called atmospheric deposition.

Roughly half the mercury contamination in the United States comes from Asia; much of it may arrive aboard particles in atmospheric dust clouds.

PNNL found dust particle surface reshaped during atmospheric passage, altering ice - forming ability

Three instruments are used to detect fine dust and ultrafine dust, i.e. the smallest atmospheric particles.

Results: Tiny bits of atmospheric dust and particles called aerosols may play a big role in global climate change, but just how big a role is not well understood.

2) Most actual atmospheric cloud droplets form around dust particles including bacteria, rather than starting from minute droplets of pure water.

The increased atmospheric dust load during glacial times is thought to be due to a generally colder and drier atmosphere, which increased the number and strength of dust sources through reduced vegetation cover (28), and reduced washout of suspended particles during transport (7).