Day: November 16, 2011

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland is creating a new Council on the Environment, to help coordinate the institution’s expanding high-level research in the various aspects of global change. Antonio Busalacch, Director of the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (and a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science), will serve as its chair. The Council on the Environment will operate as an advisory group on research, education, …

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, snowfall and the intensity of severe storms in wet regions or seasons, says a new study by a University of Maryland-led team of researchers. The research provides the first clear evidence of how aerosols — soot, dust and other small particles in the atmosphere — can affect …