Sentences with phrase «how atmospheric particles»

Results: When it comes to understanding how atmospheric particles affect climate, one measurement can't tell the whole story, especially in areas that haven't been studied.

Studying clouds and aerosols won't just help scientists study the climate, it's also a chance to investigate air quality and how atmospheric particles affect daily life.

Not exact matches

They plan to examine data from other instruments on MAVEN to see if escaping particles map to the same regions where they see reconnected magnetic fields to confirm that reconnection is contributing to Martian atmospheric loss and determine how significant it is.

«If we know how volcanic sulfur particles affect the atmospheric winds, we can have a much improved interpretation of the traces of volcanic activities in the ice cores,» says Dr. Toohey.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

Just how the sun's cycles of activity and Earth's atmospheric particles influence our climate is unclear, but NASA's Glory mission should provide some answers

This artist's concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet's rings, causing a reduction in atmospheric brightness.

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.

Transport and lifetime of atmospheric particles simulated by a quasi-global process model indicates how these particles impact the regional US western states

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.

This more targeted study will shed light on how thirdhand smoke particles compare with atmospheric particles.»

Jiwen Fan, PNNL atmospheric scientist, led the study showing how tiny particles fuel large storms in the Amazon.

We need to better understand how shielded PAHs might vary depending on the complexity of the aerosol composition, atmospheric chemical aging of particles, temperature, and relative humidity,» said Shrivastava.

Wang is a climate modeler focused on atmospheric particles such as soot, and how they travel around the globe and end up in the Arctic.

This approach, described in a recent article in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, improves the way models represent atmospheric particles, clouds, and particle - cloud interactions and how they vary at regional and local scales.

They will focus on simulations that explore how the scale of the model affects clouds and atmospheric particles in different climate regimes.