Strong Pacific storm due to Asian pollution

According to a study published in PNAS on March 6, pollution in Asia is a factor that " helps " the formation of increasingly large storms in the North Pacific region and may work touch the weather of the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Satellite records suggest that more and more dust molecules are derived from coal burning in China and India in recent decades. The team of Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University tracks pollution and clouds during 1984 and 2005 concluded that dust particles increase the phenomenon of clouds after the build-up builds up. the storms are bigger than before.

Storms in the Pacific region play an important role in circulating Earth's atmosphere; so if there are weather changes like this it will be able to bring climate consequences, namely the ability of the two polar regions to become warmer.

HONG THANH