North Atlantic was Cooled by African Dust Wednesday, December 19, 2007 http://global-warming.accuweather.com/
"'Previous studies have looked at how hot, dry air associated with a Saharan dust outbreak affects an individual storm, but our study is the first to focus on dust's radiative effect on sea surface temperatures, which may affect storms for the entire season. Nobody had suggested that link before,' Lau says." SAHARAN DUST HAS CHILLING EFFECT ON NORTH ATLANTIC http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2007/2007121425986.html Interesting ........El Niño is not the only player in town viz-a-viz the hurricane season. David Christainsen - meteorologist --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
