Amazon rainforest foliage gases affect the Earth's atmosphere PNNLab
, and the Earth's radiative balance in ways that have not been previously recognized," said Manish Shrivastava, Earth scientist at PNNL and principal investigator of the study.Filling the missing data gap
"Without a full understanding of the semi-volatile source of organic gases, we simply cannot explain the presence and role of key particle components at high altitudes," Shrivastava said. "As models wouldn't predict the observed IEPOX-SOA loadings at 10-to-14-kilometer altitudes in the Amazon, we were getting what I believed to be either model failures or a lack of understanding of the measurements," Shrivastava said."I could explain it at the surface but couldn't explain it at higher altitudes."
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