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- noun Plural form of
aerosol .
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Examples
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Similarly, if the cooling effect of aerosols is large it will have offset a substantial part of past warming due to greenhouse gases, making high climate sensitivity compatible with the observed warming.
Climate Change, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These pollutants are called aerosols and they include soot as well as compounds of nitrogen and sulfur and other stuff into the air.
News 2011
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The Glory satellite was to have provided scientists information on how the sun and atmospheric particles called aerosols affected Earth's climate.
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The satellite was give to scientists a much better tool to measure tiny natural and manmade particles, also known as aerosols, than any previous satellite NASA said.
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Its main job will be to study fine airborne particles known as aerosols.
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Summary: Some have argued that if human society cannot sufficiently reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, than we could still avoid the worst consequences of global warming by putting highly reflective particles, known as aerosols, high into the atmosphere.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Iceberg Tsunamis, Economics of Geoengineering, Arctic Ecosystems David Kroodsma 2011
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The Glory satellite was to have provided scientists information on how the sun and atmospheric particles called aerosols affected Earth's climate.
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Summary: Some have argued that if human society cannot sufficiently reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, than we could still avoid the worst consequences of global warming by putting highly reflective particles, known as aerosols, high into the atmosphere.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Iceberg Tsunamis, Economics of Geoengineering, Arctic Ecosystems David Kroodsma 2011
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Volcanoes affect the climate by emitting both carbon dioxide, which causes warming, as well as particles known as aerosols, particularly sulfate aerosols, which cause cooling.
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Natural factors include the energy from the sun; periodic volcanic eruptions of tiny particles, dust, and salt spray — all known as aerosols — many that can reflect sunlight; and natural carbon cycle processes such as termite mounds in Africa that emit methane or tiny organisms in the ocean surface that take up carbon dioxide.
Climate Challenge ~ An Interview with Climate Scientist Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel 2009
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