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(© UCAR)
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The effects of clouds on climate change are complex and not fully understood. (Robert Henson)
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On February 5, 2006, the skies over northern India are filled with a thick soup of aerosol particles all along the southern edge of the Himalaya Mountains and streaming southward over Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. These toxic human-produced aerosols are certainly hazardous to life, but they may also act to slow global warming. (NASA)
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The lights of humanity in a nighttime composite image of the world as seen from orbit. (Data courtesy Marc Imhoff, NASA/GSFC, and Christopher Elvidge, NOAA/NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA/GSFC.)
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Though World War II interrupted observing efforts at many weather stations, it also brought new instruments into vogue, including the radiosonde (balloon-borne instrument package), used here in 1944 by U.S. Army Air Force meteorologists in Iceland. (NOAA)
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Every day, thousands of volunteers across the world take weather reports that become part of the long-term global database. (© UCAR)
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Average annual temperature across central England, 1660–2013. (Met Office Hadley Centre)