Black carbon and ozone pollutants may be driving tropical expansion

27/07/2012 Man-made pollutants may be responsible for the expansion of the tropics in the northern hemisphere, according to recent research. Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, formed from human activities, are heating the atmosphere and shifting major atmospheric circulation patterns further north, which could create drier conditions in the subtropics…

Black carbon and ozone pollutants may be driving tropical expansion

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2012

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