Atmospheric scientist Richard Hansell’s work investigating the longwave radiation effects of dust aerosol in China was the subject of one of NASAs feature stories published on nasa.gov last month.
On Oct. 31, NASA ran a story titled “Dust’s Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect,” which honed in on the study performed by Hansell and his colleagues in between the Taklamakan and Gobi Deserts.
According to the story, much of the team’s research dealt with data gathered from work with NASA’s SMARTLabs measurements – short for Surface-based Mobile Atmospheric Laboratories.
The findings of Hansell and his colleagues were originally published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres – the “flagship” journal of the American Geophysical Union.
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
