Sentences with phrase «other airborne particles»

Year after year, as fallen snow added layers to the ice sheet, lead emissions were captured along with dust and other airborne particles, and became part of the ice - core record that scientists use today to learn about conditions of the past.

It gets swept westward by the jet stream where it mixes with a variety of other airborne particles such as sea spray and smoke.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

Not exact matches

Now, researchers have linked airborne dust and other particles from as far away as the Sahara and Asian deserts with the precipitation that falls over California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

The research focuses on the power of minute airborne particles known as aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.

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.

e-cigarette (short for electronic cigarette) Battery - powered devices that disperse nicotine and other chemicals as tiny airborne particles that users can inhale.

Fomites on food and water bowls, airborne particles, feathers, feces, and other items that have been in contact with a bird with psittacosis can all infect healthy birds.

The bacteria are spread by direct contact, aerosolized (airborne) particles, and on contaminated hands or other objects.

Other casualties of the 2006 cuts include an instrument for tracking airborne particles such as sea spray, smog, volcanic ash and smoke — all factors contributing to the warming or cooling of the planet.

Warming from decade to decade can also be affected by human factors such as variations in the emissions, from coal - fired power plants and other pollution sources, of greenhouse gases and of aerosols (airborne particles that can have both warming and cooling effects).