The Global Warming Conundrum: Greenhouse Gases vs. Aerosols

The Global Warming Conundrum: Greenhouse Gases vs. Aerosols

Fri January 11th, 2013
Genevieve Wanucha for Oceans at MIT

NASA’s Terra satellite image of a thick plume of aerosol pollution over eastern China, extending eastward over the Bo Hai Bay and Korea Bay. Courtesy of NASA

In this article featuring work by PAOC alumna Rong Zhang, co-authored with John Marshall and others, Oceans at MIT reports on the difficulty of guaging the relative cooling effect of aerosols versus warming by greenhouse gases.

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