{"id":7495,"date":"2016-06-25T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2016-06-25T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:03:04","slug":"airplanes-make-clouds-brighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/airplanes-make-clouds-brighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Airplanes make clouds brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm University noted some recent research by a team of scientists there on the brightness of high-level clouds affected by airplane exhaust. \u00a0Cloud brightness is important for climate because it helps control how much sunlight (and thus energy) reaches the surface of the earth. \u00a0Brighter clouds&#8211;more reflection of sunlight back to space&#8211;less energy at the surface. \u00a0The exhaust from the airplanes interacts with the cloud droplets or ice crystals to make them look thicker and more reflective. \u00a0This appears to be the most effect in mid-latitude clouds. \u00a0You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.su.se\/english\/about\/profile-areas\/climate-seas-and-environment\/airplanes-make-clouds-brighter-1.288211\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2662\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/contrails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2662\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/contrails-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Contrails.  Source: Lamiot, Commons Wikimedia.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/contrails-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/contrails-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/contrails.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contrails. Source: Lamiot, Commons Wikimedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm University noted some recent research by a team of scientists there on the brightness of high-level clouds affected by airplane exhaust. \u00a0Cloud brightness is important for climate because it helps control how much sunlight (and thus energy) reaches the surface of the earth. \u00a0Brighter clouds&#8211;more reflection of sunlight back to space&#8211;less energy at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7496,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}