1. Air quality in WINTER: Map highlighting research areas for WINTER field campaign

    Cold facts of air pollution

    A major field project in the Eastern United States, supported by NCAR, seeks to better understand air pollution during winter.

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  2. Thunderstorms and ozone:  A rotating supercell thunderstorm moves across northeast Colorado.

    Not just rain: thunderstorms also pour down ozone

    Scientists find unequivocal evidence that thunderstorms move ozone from the stratosphere down toward Earth's surface, affecting air quality and climate.

    • Climate,
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  3. Ozone concentrations above the Arctic in March 2011

    Chlorine makes a comeback

    A circulation change has boosted concentrations of hydrogen chloride (HCl), the main reservoir of chlorine in the stratosphere, by several percent over much of the Northern Hemisphere since 2007.

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  4. View of Antarctic sky from NSF/NCAR HIAPER research jet

    Where's the atmosphere's self-cleaning power?

    In a surprising finding, a research team concludes that the dominant "detergent" in the atmosphere is equally abundant in the northern and southern hemispheres.

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  5. Ground-level ozone's toll: A traffic jam in Delhi, India

    Ground-level ozone's toll in India

    Ozone pollution in India is damaging millions of tons of the country’s major crops, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The pollution caused losses of more than $1 billion in a single year, destroying enough food to feed an estimated 94 million people.

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