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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Sampling Greenland: The Dark Snow Project, with Jason Box and Peter Sinclair

Sampling Greenland: The Dark Snow Project (http://darksnowproject.org/)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT6H7HPWkqU



Dark Snow is a field and lab project to measure the impact of changing wildfire and industrial soot on snow and ice reflectivity. Soot darkens snow and ice, increasing solar energy absorption, hastening the melt of the “cryosphere.”



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