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Global picture of greenhouse gases emerges from pole-to-pole research flights | R&D Mag
The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, ends this week (September 9, 2011), and has enabled researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect Earth's climate.
The team also found that black carbon particlesemitted by diesel engines, industrial processes, and firesare more widely distributed in the atmosphere than previously thought.
Such particles can affect climate in various ways, such as directly absorbing solar radiation, influencing the formation of clouds or enhancing melt rates when they are deposited on ice or snow.
"What we didn't anticipate were the very high levels of black carbon we observed in plumes of air sweeping over the central Pacific toward the U.S. West Coast," says NOAA scientist Ryan Spackman, a member of the HIPPO research team.
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How Republicans hate that awful word "Research". Well, they could put Republican scientists on figuring out ways to "deny". There many not be many, but the few that there are, are very well unknown.
The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, ends this week (September 9, 2011), and has enabled researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect Earth's climate.
The team also found that black carbon particlesemitted by diesel engines, industrial processes, and firesare more widely distributed in the atmosphere than previously thought.
Such particles can affect climate in various ways, such as directly absorbing solar radiation, influencing the formation of clouds or enhancing melt rates when they are deposited on ice or snow.
"What we didn't anticipate were the very high levels of black carbon we observed in plumes of air sweeping over the central Pacific toward the U.S. West Coast," says NOAA scientist Ryan Spackman, a member of the HIPPO research team.
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How Republicans hate that awful word "Research". Well, they could put Republican scientists on figuring out ways to "deny". There many not be many, but the few that there are, are very well unknown.