Machine Learning Techniques Speed Up Aircraft Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Analyses
A new capability facilitates source apportionment of organic aerosols in real time.
Aerosols and the Atmospheric Ice Machine
In this study, researchers probed the ice nucleation ability of different aerosol types by combining 11-year observations from multiple satellites and cloud-resolving model simulations.
A New Route to Studying How Aerosols Form Ice Crystals
A new type of ice chamber allows researchers to understand how ice forms on atmospheric aerosol particles.
Sea-Spray Aerosols Change Atmospheric River Precipitation in Mountains
Aerosols from sea-spray that are transported by atmospheric rivers enhance snow precipitation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Characterizing Aerosol Effects on Modeled Cloud Lifetimes Using a Novel Framework
Applying a novel framework to a climate model reveals new characteristics about how elevated concentrations of aerosols affect clouds.
Urban Land and Aerosols Amplify Hazardous Weather, Steer Storms Toward Cities
Urban landscapes and anthropogenic aerosols have the potential to make gusts stronger, hail larger and even steer storms toward cities.
Long-Term Aerosol Trends in the Continental United States
During 1980–2014, aerosols arriving from East Asia offset radiative flux increases in the western United States induced by domestic air pollution reductions.
Asian Aerosols’ Impact on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Published in Nature Communications, Increased Asian Aerosols Drive a Slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, identifies the role aerosols over Asia is having on the AMOC, a complex system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean.
Understanding the Impacts of Dust and Sea Salt Mixing States on Nitrate Aerosol
How a model treats gas transfer behavior onto dust and sea salt particles significantly influences nitrate aerosols and their effects on climate.
Scratching the Surface of Aerosols with Uncrewed Aerial Systems
A set of papers combines surface science measurements on tiny particles with uncrewed aerial systems to better understand and model aerosols.