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” After earning a PhD in aeronautics, O’Gorman switched career paths, and worked with Schneider as a postdoc, investigating turbulence in the atmosphere — and in particular, the atmosphere’s response to global warming. ...
General principles in planning a sampling program are given including guidelines for the selection of sites and the location of the air sampling inlet. 1.2 Investigations of atmospheric contaminants involve the study of a heterogeneous mass under uncontrolled conditions. ...
“Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for 100 years, but black carbon doesn’t stay in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks, so the effects of controlling black carbon are much faster,” Menon says. ...
The high-tech instrument is the only one of its kind in the world able to provide continuous data on the vertical distribution of humidity in the atmosphere up to an altitude of 10 km. It works by firing a laser beam vertically into the sky 30 times a second, then measuring the “echo” (light reflected back from different layers in the atmosphere) to build ...
Ramanathan's team revolutionized the gathering of atmospheric data in 2006 when the researchers first successfully deployed the aircraft in the Maldives AUAV Campaign (MAC). ...