April 6, 2006

See the Indirect Effect

Nikisa's image from Louisiana is a good example of the Indirect Effect. The smoke from the fire on the right of the image is suppressing the formation of small cloud droplets. This was discussed in a paper by Ilan Koren of JCET and Yoram Kaufman in 2004 and seen in Amazon fires.

See:

Ilan Koren, Yoram J. Kaufman, Lorraine A. Remer, and Jose V. Martins
Measurement of the Effect of Amazon Smoke on Inhibition of Cloud Formation
Science 27 February 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5662, pp. 1342 - 1345
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089424

Posted by Ray Hoff at April 6, 2006 8:28 PM