Article: Competition between sea salt and sulfate particles as cloud condensation nuclei

Article: Sulfate particles enhance climate warming ...
Asian News International;  June 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: ANI Washington, June 30 (ANI): A new study has found that particles of sulfate, thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight, instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot. Recent atmospheric models have ranked soot, also called black carbon, second only

Article: Direct and Indirect Shortwave Radiative Effects of Sea ...
Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... species is relatively weak, sea salt aerosols are the dominant contributor ... condensing sulfate aerosol, sea salt particles activate to form ... the smaller but more abundant sulfate particles often dominate sea salt as CCN at supersaturations ...

Article: Hurricane winds carried ocean salt, plankton far inland.
Science Letter;  May 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... found surprising evidence of sea salt and frozen plankton in high ... nuclei. Different nuclei, like sulfate particles, sea salt, and desert dust, affect ice ... by strong hurricane winds, sea salt and other particles from evaporated ...

Article: '97 hurricane packed punch and surprises
Post-Tribune (IN);  April 27, 2003 ;     614 words ... ... to find the storm had lofted sea salt and ocean plankton, which was ... Different "nuclei" like sulfate particles, sea salt and desert dust affect ice ... updrafts inside hurricanes carry sea salt, plankton and other particles ...

Article: Light scattering from sea-salt aerosols at ...
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... to estimate light scattering (Bsp) by sea-salt aerosols at coastal locations in the Interagency ... scattering efficiencies for fine and coarse sea-salt particles were based on previously measured dry sea-salt size distributions. Enhancement of sea ...

Article: SaltWorks, Inc. Heralds the Sea Salt Revolution.
PR Newswire;  May 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a healthier, more flavorful cousin: sea salt. OK, so no one will ever actually write ... from a man who makes his living selling sea salt, but evidence supporting the demise of refined salt is everywhere. "The sea salt revolution is rapidly gaining momentum ...

Article: Near-real-time measurement of sea-salt aerosol ...
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... optical particle counting to infer sea-salt size distributions. A reasonable ... both approaches can provide reliable sea-salt distributions. The combination of these measurements suggested that sea salt was the dominant constituent of aerosol ...