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LIGHTNING. "On Earth, the lightning frequency is approximately 40–50 times a second or nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year and the average duration is 0.2 seconds made up from a number of much shorter flashes (strokes) of around 30 microseconds." https://lnkd.in/dYPiEzS View in LinkedIn

COSMIC WEATHER. “For decades, scientists have argued over whether there is a link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, which in turn could affect climate. Now two atmospheric physicists in the UK have discovered that global atmospheric electricity – which itself is altered by cosmic rays, space weather and El Niño – affects the base height of certain types of clouds.” https://lnkd.in/dVCdgFH View in LinkedIn

CLOUD SCALES. “Cloud active aerosols, i.e., cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nuclei (IN), can modify cloud microstructure, precipitation forming processes, and the meteorological and radiative responses of clouds and the atmosphere. These effects impact both the atmospheric circulation systems and the thermodynamic and radiative energy budgets over a cascade of scales from local to global.” https://lnkd.in/dR5c8TB View in LinkedIn

AEROSOLS. “The emerging picture is of aerosols strongly regulating the cloud cover and depth by suppressing rainout and its dynamical feedbacks, which are potent mechanisms for dissipating clouds of all depths.” https://lnkd.in/dCrqT-h View in LinkedIn

Quite the pigeon nest in the making at the Great Gate of Girona. View in LinkedIn

SEA CLOUDS. “With cycles of condensation, charging at cloud top, partial evaporation during mixing, electroscavenging and further evaporation, the tendency is for the electroscavenging to increase the salt content of the larger droplets (which as we have seen electroscavenge at faster rates) so that on evaporation of these droplets they leave even larger salt crystals than they started with.” https://lnkd.in/dHtJZsW View in LinkedIn

CLOUD CYCLES. “Most clouds evaporate and do not precipitate, and that aerosol particles and water in the atmosphere at any one time may typically undergo at least 3 cycles of condensation and evaporation. For clouds such as marine stratocumuli the initial condensation nuclei will usually be sea salt crystals.” https://lnkd.in/dHtJZsW View in LinkedIn