"Atmospheric particulates" refers to tiny solid or liquid particles that are suspended in the air. These particles can come from natural sources, like dust and pollen, or from human activities, like industrial emissions. They can affect air quality and can have various impacts on human health and the environment.
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Sulfur dioxide is a major source
of atmospheric particulate matter with diameter under 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), and contributes to smog.
Some climatologists partially attribute the temporary cooling trend to industrial smog, which has since been overcome by the effects of growing greenhouse emissions and, ironically, by clean - air laws that have
reduced atmospheric particulates.
Let's consider NASA's official position on geoengineering (or «chemtrails»), NASA, NOAA, NWS, and the USAF tell us the relentless bombardment of
atmospheric particulate spraying in our skies is all just «contrails».
Yet, model projections of future global warming vary, because of differing estimates of population growth, economic activity, greenhouse gas emission rates, changes
in atmospheric particulate concentrations and their effects, and also because of uncertainties in climate models.
In the second set of studies, environmental chemists will seek to characterize the components of thirdhand smoke, including investigating the differences
between atmospheric particulate matter versus that in tobacco smoke.
A key question for understanding future impacts of particles and for the development of cost - effective control policies is the extent to
which atmospheric particulate matter can be controlled through regulation of fossil fuel combustion against a background of OSCs.
This diagram shows types, and size distribution in micrometres,
of atmospheric particulate matter This animation shows aerosol optical thickness of emitted and transported key tropospheric aerosols from 17 August 2006 to 10 April 2007, from a 10 km resolution GEOS - 5 «nature run» using the GOCART model.
Coal plants are one of the largest contributors to
atmospheric particulate matter and ozone — which are linked to worsened asthma and increased rates of heart attacks and premature death — as well as greenhouse gases and toxic substances, including mercury.