Sentences with phrase «tiny airborne»

Industry, transportation, and biomass burning in North America, Europe, and Asia are emitting trace gases and tiny airborne particles that are polluting the polar region, forming an «Arctic Haze» every winter and spring.

Again, I point out that «Industry, transportation, and biomass burning in North America, Europe, and Asia are emitting trace gases and tiny airborne particles that are polluting the polar region, forming an «Arctic Haze» every winter and spring.»

NASA's P - 3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how tiny airborne particles called aerosols change the properties of clouds and how they influence the amount of incoming sunlight the clouds reflect or absorb.

Over the last century, tiny airborne particles called aerosols, which cool the climate by absorbing and reflecting sunlight, have largely cancelled out the effects of GHG emissions on tropical storm intensity, according to a new scientific review paper published in Science journal.

There are some cat litters that produce tiny airborne dust particles that can trigger an allergic reaction in you or your cat.

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

Why It Matters: Aerosols, tiny airborne particles of dust and pollution suspended in the atmosphere, affect the atmosphere and the surface of Earth by scattering and absorbing light.

Some atmospheric VOCs combine with oxygen to form tiny airborne particles called oxygenated VOCs (oVOCs), which insulate the atmosphere and lead to warming.

Tiny airborne particulates, which come mostly from fuel combustion, are a worldwide problem.

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.

Their stickiness makes it hard to get them through an inlet into a measuring device, but these compounds may play a significant role in the formation and alteration of aerosols, tiny airborne particles that can contribute to smog or to the nucleation of raindrops or ice crystals, affecting the Earth's climate.

So I'll just have to find other ways to make use of the tiny airborne drone that will almost certainly be at my beck and call in the not - too - distant future.

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Believe it or not, sneezing is a reflex mechanism that allows newborns to clear their tiny nasal passages and airways of airborne particles and congestion.

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.

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.

Nerve cells in the brain of a tiny jumping spider can pick up airborne sounds from at least three meters (almost 10 feet) away, reports Ronald Hoy.

Phytoplankton — the tiny, green algae at the surface of the ocean — produce airborne gases and organic matter that form marine aerosols.

But it can also stir up tiny particles that can become airborne and inhaled; some models even spew dust and allergens out of their exhaust vents.