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    The Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) was a light detection and ranging remote sensing instrument designed to measure the location, composition and...
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    sometimes called bioaerosols. Aerosol is defined as a suspension system of solid or liquid particles in a gas. An aerosol includes both the particles and...
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  • Children's Acute Transport Service, UK Children's Intensive Care Transport Service (publicly funded) Cloud Aerosol Transport System, a meteorological...
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  • Thumbnail for Marine cloud brightening
    idea underlying marine cloud brightening is to add aerosols to atmospheric locations where clouds form. These would then act as cloud condensation nuclei...
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  • the cloud seeding months. A study was conducted called the UAE Unified Aerosol Experiment (UAE2) to assess the progress and effectiveness of cloud seeding...
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    science equipment and experiments, and the 494 kg (1,089 lb) Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS). CATS is a LIDAR remote sensing instrument designed to...
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    Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean...
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    ECOSTRESS, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, and the Cloud Aerosol Transport System. ISS-based astronomy telescopes and experiments include SOLAR...
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    Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) experimental payload. Deorbited with SpaceX CRS-17: CATS – Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (LiDAR, NASA). Originally...
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    Nakajima T (7 March 2018). "Aerosol effects on cloud water amounts were successfully simulated by a global cloud-system resolving model". Nature Communications...
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    Particulates (redirect from Sulfate aerosol)
    Cloud droplets form onto pre-existing aerosol particles, known as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Droplets condensing around human-produced aerosols...
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    changes in cloud cover alone. Global dimming is primarily caused by the presence of sulfate particles which hang in the Earth's atmosphere as aerosols. These...
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    ECOSTRESS, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, and the Cloud Aerosol Transport System. ISS-based astronomy telescopes and experiments include SOLAR...
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    Bioaerosol (redirect from Aerosol (biology))
    Bioaerosols (short for biological aerosols) are a subcategory of particles released from terrestrial and marine ecosystems into the atmosphere. They consist...
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    Aeroplankton (section Clouds)
    to 106 microbial cells per cubic metre. Processes such as aerosolization and wind transport determine how the microorganisms are distributed in the atmosphere...
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    include the fact that aerosols can act as cloud condensation nuclei, stimulating cloud formation. Natural sources of aerosols include sea spray, mineral...
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  • Thumbnail for North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study
    dynamics in ocean ecosystems, and how such dynamics influence atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and climate. The study focused on the sub-arctic region of the North...
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    Condensed aerosol fire suppression is a particle-based method of fire extinction. It is similar to but not identical to dry chemical fire extinction methods...
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    trunk section, which carries the spacecraft's solar panels and allows the transport of unpressurized cargo to the ISS, was first used for cargo on the SpaceX...
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    such as Aerosol Robotic NETwork (AERONET) and radiometric measurements such as Terra Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR), CloudAerosol Lidar...
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    budget. Sulfate aerosols act as cloud condensation nuclei and lead to clouds that have more and smaller cloud droplets. These clouds reflect solar radiation...
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    salts that form sea salt aerosol (SSA). SSA has the ability to form cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and remove anthropogenic aerosol pollutants from the atmosphere...
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    budget. Sulfate aerosols act as cloud condensation nuclei and lead to clouds that have more and smaller cloud droplets. These clouds reflect solar radiation...
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  • Atmospheric lidar (category Aerosol measurement)
    instruments have been used to study, among other, atmospheric gases, aerosols, clouds, and temperature. The basic concepts to study the atmosphere using...
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    Volcanic ash (redirect from Ash cloud)
    Bentonite – Rock type or absorbent swelling clay Deposition (aerosol physics) – Process by which aerosol particles collect onto solid surfaces Energetically modified...
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    global scale. Concerning the Earth System and climate research, they focus on biological and organic aerosols, aerosol-cloud interactions and atmospheric surface...
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  • spacecraft used for the 2019 Boeing Orbital Flight Test CALIPSO, NASA's "Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations" satellite Kalypso...
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    atmospheric warming. Aerosol indirect effect. Aerosols modify the properties of clouds through a subset of the aerosol population called cloud condensation nuclei...
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    vape clouds of popular brands such as Juul and Vuse, and found "nearly 2,000 chemicals, the vast majority of which are unidentified." The aerosol of e-cigarettes...
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    Colloid (redirect from Colloidal system)
    liquid, while others extend the definition to include substances like aerosols and gels. The term colloidal suspension refers unambiguously to the overall...
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