Air Pollution Raises Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Study --Doctors Lounge
One more reason to study aerosols. See an interesting article on Doctor's Lounge.
Air Pollution Raises Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Study --Doctors Lounge
Welcome to the world of atmospheric aerosols, clouds and climate science. Atmospheric aerosols (or PM) are complex mixture of solid and liquid particles that vary in size and composition, and remain suspended in the air. They affect human health and play an important role in weather and climate change processes. Due to high temporal and spatial variability, their characterization into climate models is highly uncertain. This blog is our science diary about latest research in this field.
One more reason to study aerosols. See an interesting article on Doctor's Lounge.
Air Pollution Raises Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Study --Doctors Lounge
Posted by Unknown at 11:42 AM 7 comments
Labels: health
Posted by Pawan Gupta at 4:48 PM 3 comments
I remember an incident from early days of my PhD. I was travelling in a train and a fellow passenger asked me what is that I am doing? My reply was, "I study aerosols for their climatic effects". He was thoroughly confused. What he understood from the word "aerosol" was that I am studying gases coming out of aerosol-cans affecting the ozone layer. It was not his fault. There are very few places where aerosols scientist interact with laymen about their research. I guess still the situation may be not be very different from the perspective of layman when he or she hears word "aerosol". Beside aerosol's climatic effects, laymen have many reasons to know about aerosols, if not for the sack of curiosity, for the sack of his/her health. The obvious question is where to get this information particularly in a format that a layman can understand and use it without further processing it.
Few scientists and students from University of Maryland, Baltimore county have created a blog with the support of NASA to fill this information gap. They have named it "Smog Blog". Find out more about this blog from a video that NASA has created to popularize The Smog Blog.
Link to Smog Blog
http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/
Link to NASA video about Smog Blog
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/smogblog.html
Posted by Unknown at 2:21 AM 2 comments
Labels: video nasa aerosol smog harish
Section | AS - Atmospheric Science |
Session Title | Measurement and Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosols for Climate and Air Quality Applications |
Session Description | The ever-growing population and human activities have led to a rapid and continuous increase in the emission of aerosols and its precursor gases in past several decades. Advancement in aerosol measurements and modeling capabilities in last two decades provides an opportunity to investigate the impact of anthropogenic activities on air quality, solar energy, regional and global climate and hydrological cycle. This session is concerned primarily with aerosols measurements and their application to climate and air quality over global regions. This includes, measurement techniques, data analysis, seasonal and long term trends, ground and space based remote sensing, aerosols and climate, observations related to air quality, use of satellite data for particulate matter monitoring, aerosol model development, model validation using ground and satellite data, assimilation of satellite products into regions and community air quality models. Also include emission of aerosols and its precursors, aerosol properties and radiative effects, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, regional climatic and hydrological effects of aerosol, and impact of climate change and variability on aerosol. Original studies using long-term ground observations, data from field campaigns, satellite measurements, and models are also solicited. |
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