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When a good air mass goes bad
Much of the United States has felt winter’s bite this week, with fresh but frigid cold to the east and a weeks-long spell of stagnant, polluted chill to the west.
- Air Quality,
- Weather
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Scientists launch international study of open-fire cooking and air quality
NCAR scientists are leading a three-year, international study into the impact of open-fire cooking on regional air quality and disease.
- Air Quality
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First up: Accelerated scientific discovery
First in the queue for the NCAR-Wyoming Yellowstone system is a set of 11 computing-intensive projects tackling major problems in Earth and atmospheric science.
- Climate,
- Air Quality,
- Supercomputing,
- Weather
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Storms in plane sight
Scientists are analyzing results from a project that pulled together chemists, radar experts, cloud physicists, forecasters, pilots, and other specialists to investigate the evolution of thunderstorms.
- Air Quality
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Power boost for volcanoes
Sulfate gases emitted by the Nabro volcano boosted stratospheric particles and gas across the entire Northern Hemisphere in 2011.
- Climate,
- Air Quality