Researchers find connection between Asia pollution, changes in weather
A team of researchers has been using a supercomputer at Texas A&M University for the past two years to find out if Asia's unchecked pollution problems are affecting your weekend weather forecast.
While the details remain hazy, initial findings published this month in Nature Communications show that three decades of industrial exhaust billowing into the atmosphere is changing the way clouds and storms form over the northwest Pacific Ocean.
"Asian pollution affects cloud formations, precipitation, and storm intensity over the north Pacific and eventually impacts regional and global climate," Caltech post-doctoral scholar Yuan Wang wrote in an email.
Wang, who is the lead author of the article and a former Texas A&M doctoral student, said pollution levels in large cities such as Beijing are more than 100 times higher than the acceptable limits set by the World Health Organization.
More at http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/article_91837e51-6ba4-59e5-a9ee-1013fc94a917.html . (College/Bryan Station The Eagle)
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