What Were Those Clouds in The Scream? (IMAGE)

Rutgers University

What Were Those Clouds in The Scream?

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Rutgers Professor Alan Robock with an image of The Scream, an 1895 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. From top to bottom on the right are: a nacreous cloud over McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2004; an 1883 drawing by William Ascroft showing the sky in London after the Krakatau eruption; and a 1982 volcanic sunset over Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, after the El Chichón eruption in Mexico.

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Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University

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