Aerosols Control Rainfall in the Rainforest

Aerosols Control Rainfall in the Rainforest
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:38:00 -0500

A team of environmental engineers, who might better be called "archeologists of the air," have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions.

Working in the remote Amazonian Basin north of Manaus, Brazil, the researchers measured particles emitted or formed within the rainforest ecosystem that are relatively free from the influence of anthropogenic, or human, activity.

The finding, published in a paper in the Sept. 17 issue ...

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