Asia's brown clouds heat the Himilayas
03 August 2007Dr Ellie Highwood, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, discusses how for much of the year south Asia languishes under a thick brown haze some 3 kilometres thick. Now scientists have shown that this polluted atmospheric layer is causing significant warming in the region, equivalent to that caused by recent greenhouse gas emissions. Dr Ellie Highwood, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, discusses how for much of the year south Asia languishes under a thick brown haze some 3 kilometres thick. Now scientists have shown that this polluted atmospheric layer is causing significant warming in the region, equivalent to that caused by recent greenhouse gas emissions.