New satellite observations reveal link between forests and acid rain
Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
A team from LATMOS/IPSL, working in collaboration with Belgian researchers from the Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB) and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), have revealed the existence of a major source of formic acid from boreal and tropical forests. Formic acid is known to be the main cause of rainfall acidity in these regions. These results, obtained using infrared data from France's IASI instrument on board the MetOp meteorological satellite, are published online in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience dated 18 December 2011.
