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This is the basis of the cloud chamber for detecting subatomic particles. [3] The concept of CCN is used in cloud seeding, which tries to encourage rainfall by seeding the air with condensation nuclei. It has further been suggested that creating such nuclei could be used for marine cloud brightening, a climate engineering technique. [4]
The Twomey effect describes how additional cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), possibly from anthropogenic pollution, may increase the amount of solar radiation reflected by clouds. This is an indirect effect (or radiative forcing ) by such particles, as distinguished from direct effects (forcing) due to enhanced scattering or absorbing radiation ...
Some sea spray droplets immediately reabsorb into the sea while others evaporate entirely and contribute salt particles like dimethyl sulfide (DMS) to the atmosphere where they can be transported via turbulence to cloud layers and serve as cloud condensation nuclei. [15] The formation of these cloud condensation nuclei like dimethyl sulfide ...
“Certain nuclei are sprinkled into the clouds to facilitate cloud condensation, leading to rainfall,” Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the director general of the India Meteorological Department (IMD ...
Due to the hygroscopy, a sea salt particle can serve as a very efficient cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), altering cloud reflectivity, lifetime, and precipitation process. According to the IPCC report, the total sea salt flux from ocean to atmosphere is ~3300 teragrams (Tg) per year. [2]
The presence of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) influences the number of cloud drops that form in a cloud; the more CCN there are, the more cloud droplets that will form. Changes in the CCN concentration and their associated changes in the cloud drop distribution can redistribute the energy within a hurricane. [5]
A tool utilized for weather manipulation nearly turned into an instrument of disaster Monday. In China's Sichuan province, a cloud-seeding rocket fell to the ground on a busy local walkway, just ...
Four years ago, astronomers noticed the abundant clouds on Neptune had largely disappeared. Telescope data may have helped researchers figure out why.