{"id":1903,"date":"2015-01-30T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:37:35","slug":"aerosols-from-asia-may-be-affecting-weather-patterns-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/aerosols-from-asia-may-be-affecting-weather-patterns-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerosols from Asia may be affecting weather patterns in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently NASA released a mesmerizing video of the movement of aerosols around the globe. \u00a0You can watch the video and read a brief description <a title=\"Aerosol video from NASA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onearth.org\/earthwire\/asia-pollution-us-weather?utm_source=fb&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=socialmedia\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0at <em>onEarth.org<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Aerosols can occur naturally (sea salt particles, pollen) but many are caused by burning of forests or output from manufacturing. \u00a0On the video you can see how aerosols move around the world under atmospheric weather patterns, carrying air pollution from one area to another. \u00a0Locally, aerosols can increase rainfall downwind of cities; regionally, sand blowing off of the Sahara Desert can reduce hurricane activity in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you can see local burning activity (red dots) as well as sources of larger-scale pollution. \u00a0You can also see local winds, hurricanes, and extratropical cyclones. \u00a0To me, the most remarkable thing about the video is the sheer beauty of the movement of air around the world. \u00a0We are all connected by the atmospheric river.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1904\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/aerosol-video-from-NASA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1904\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/aerosol-video-from-NASA-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NASA\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/aerosol-video-from-NASA-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/aerosol-video-from-NASA-162x138.jpg 162w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/aerosol-video-from-NASA.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently NASA released a mesmerizing video of the movement of aerosols around the globe. \u00a0You can watch the video and read a brief description here\u00a0at onEarth.org. Aerosols can occur naturally (sea salt particles, pollen) but many are caused by burning of forests or output from manufacturing. \u00a0On the video you can see how aerosols move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}