COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Send in the Clouds
Description: Graeme Stephens is principal investigator of NASA's CloudSat mission, launched in 2006 to improve our understanding of the role clouds play in our complicated climate system. Stephens says that as Earth's global temperature continues to rise, water vapor -- the most abundant greenhouse gas on Earth, which traps heat much as carbon dioxide does -- will continue to build, with uncertain results. [Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-262
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Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Publish Date: 8/9/2010
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