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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Other Weather Topics => Topic started by: Randall Kayfes on September 30, 2018, 10:44:30 AM

Title: Difference Between Smoke & Pollution in Cloud Formation
Post by: Randall Kayfes on September 30, 2018, 10:44:30 AM

Greetings, the two articles below are pretty informative of how Smoke (Forest Fires) and Pollution differ in their aerosol properties which are needed to create thunderclouds.
Interesting reading...

http://earthsky.org/earth/study-aerosals-particles-pollution-smoke-thunderclouds

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7244

Randall