View of the Azores from DOE Gulfstream-1 (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

View of the Azores from DOE Gulfstream-1

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Results from a study of clouds and aerosols conducted in the Azores revealed that new particles can seed the formation of clouds in the marine boundary layer--the atmosphere up to about a kilometer above Earth's surface--even over the open ocean, where the concentration of precursor gases was expected to be low.

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