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Rainfall and Aerosols

Caption: Smoke from agricultural fires suppresses rainfall from a cloud over the Amazon (right). The same cloud rains heavily on the same day some distance away in the pristine air. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 5, 2008, issue of Science , published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld and colleagues at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel was titled "Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?"

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