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Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki

Nature Geoscience 10, 646 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo3016 Authors: Takeshi Horinouchi, Shin-ya Murakami, Takehiko Satoh, Javier Peralta, Kazunori Ogohara, Toru Kouyama, Takeshi Imamura, Hiroki Kashimura, Sanjay S. Limaye, Kevin McGouldrick, Masato Nakamura, Takao M. Sato, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Masahiro Takagi, Shigeto Watanabe, Manabu … Continue reading

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Impact of decadal cloud variations on the Earth’s energy budget

Nature Geoscience 9, 871 (2016). doi:10.1038/ngeo2828 Authors: Chen Zhou, Mark D. Zelinka & Stephen A. Klein Feedbacks of clouds on climate change strongly influence the magnitude of global warming. Cloud feedbacks, in turn, depend on the spatial patterns of surface … Continue reading

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Alaska volcano ash cloud covers 400 miles, cancels flights

Pavlof Volcano in Alaska Erupts With Massive Ash Cloud A ?red? level aviation alert has been issued following the eruption of a highly active volcano on the Aleutian Range in the Alaska Peninsula. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the … Continue reading

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Electron cloud surrounds nanoparticles

(ANSA) – ROMA, 20 NOV – a cloud of electrons was observed, with Ray x has found so far surrounding nanoparticles as a sponge. The discovery, made by a research group led by the European laboratory for the Grenoble synchrotron … Continue reading

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The Amazon is a cloud factory

(ANSA) – Rome, 31 AUG – the Amazon forests behave as natural factories: rich in potassium salts cloud particles emitted by plants encourage the increase of particles around which clouds are formed. The discovery, made by a group of international … Continue reading

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The Amazon is a cloud factory

(ANSA) – Rome, 31 AUG – the Amazon forests behave as natural factories: rich in potassium salts cloud particles emitted by plants encourage the increase of particles around which clouds are formed. The discovery, made by a group of international … Continue reading

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