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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration SDI
Eutrophication SDI Framework Element: Biota Population Biota Population Characteristic: Number of Algae Blooms Arctic Optical Depth (192) Definition: Arctic haze/ optical depth Issue: Climate/Global Climate Change SDI Framework Element: Atmosphere Atmosphere Characteristic ...
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Climate Candidate SDI
United States contribution to large scale changes to the global climate Candidate SDI: Arctic Optical Depth (192 NOAA) Definition: Arctic haze/ optical depth SDI Framework Element: Atmosphere (1.2.5.1) Element Characteristic ...
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Forest news archives
International • Scientists study arctic haze for clues to rapid melting (4/22/08) • Asian Development Bank: Biofuels make food ... on ice (3/30/08) • Western Antarctic ice chunk collapses (3/25/08) • Arctic ice thinning, glacier melting accelerates (3/19/08) • Power plant CO2 increases by 3 ...
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Read More ARCTAS: Measuring the Arctic’s Haze and Smoke The Arctic is often perceived as a pristine place, located as it is far from the ... soup of pollution that peaks in late winter and early spring even has a name—Arctic haze. During the summer, smoke from wildfires joins the mix. This spring and summer, NCAR researchers ...
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Arctic, where they mix and react with sunlight, producing the ozone and aerosols that compose Arctic haze. The haze affects the highly reflective Arctic ice sheet in ... Arctic the impacts of boreal wildfires on atmosphere and climate aerosol radiative forcing from Arctic haze and other air pollution chemical processes (ozone, mercury, aerosols, and halogen) related to haze ...
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Science and the Environment Bulletin: Air Collection
Under Evaluation Sunrise Sheds Light on Polar Chemistry Network Pinpoints Lightning Strikes The Arctic: Clean or Contaminated? Burning Takes Bite out of Landfill Gas Technologies turn manure ... North America" 2010: An Atmospheric Odyssey Mercury Storms Threaten Arctic Urban Air: Quality A Burning Issue Manure Causing White Haze MAESTRO to Lead ozone research Forecasts assist allergy sufferers Air ...
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Science and the Environment Bulletin: Pollution Collection
Canada's Arctic The Telltale Cloud The Two-Stroke Solution Movement of Contaminants in Rock Tuning Out Greenhouse Gas Monitoring the "Tailpipe of North America" Manure Causing White Haze Plants Clean Up Contaminated Sites Biotechnology in Canada Mercury Storms Threaten Arctic Bio-Markers Clues in Chemical Sleuthing Testing the World ...
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Mercury Policy Project
"A couple of times, we saw haze in the atmosphere and the sun ... grasshoppers' its way up, and it ends up in the arctic.'' Welch said. ''In the arctic, food chains are very long. Polar bears eat seals, ... the creators of much of the pollution in the Arctic. On the North American side of the Arctic Ocean, military installations, many of them ...
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Plain English Guide To The Clean Air Act
EPA is developing a new program to control regional haze, which is largely caused by particulate matter. Offsets What if a ... the United States; the hole extends over Canada and up into the Arctic regions (the area of the North Pole). The hole was first ... who live in the eastern United States should see much less summertime haze. Also, we'll know the ozone level is increasing in the ...
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Climatology
Here is an example of positive feedback. The ice covering the Arctic Ocean melts a little during the summer and refreezes during the winter. An unusually warm ... combines with water to produce small drops of sulfuric acid. These small drops produce a haze, also called an aerosol, which has a high albedo. The aerosol reflects sunlight, resulting in ...
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