New study turns up the heat on soot's role in Himalayan warming
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 21:21
in Earth & Climate
A new modeling study from NASA confirms that when tiny air pollution particles we commonly call soot -- also known as black carbon -- travel along wind currents from densely populated south Asian cities and accumulate over a climate hotspot called the Tibetan Plateau, the result may be anything but inconsequential.