Ozone kills bacteria thus
it reduces nucleation sites and presumably cloud formation.
Theoretical calculations identify the formation of an unusually stable aromatic acid — sulfuric acid complex, which likely leads to
a reduced nucleation barrier.
During periods of high solar activity (last several cycles had anomalously large sunspot numbers), the solar wind deflects more of these high - energy cosmic rays away from Earth, thereby
reducing nucleation / cloud cover and increasing albedo.
Not exact matches
Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis experimentally proved how the confined collagen structure contributes to
reducing thermodynamic energy barrier to intrafibrillar
nucleation for bone mineralization.
This lowers the probability that the particles will survive to CCN sizes, and as a result it
reduces the sensitivity of CCN concentrations to changes in the
nucleation rate (Pierce & Adams 2009).
The chemical
nucleation process creates an endothermic reaction that tends to
reduce the overall precipitation amounts.