Coarse sea spray inhibits lightning

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• who: Zengxin Pan from the Wuhan University, Wuhan, China have published the research: Coarse sea spray inhibits lightning, in the Journal: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
• what: As the authors show here, coarse sea salt aerosols with a dry radius > 1 μm (CSS, or sea spray) have the opposite effect of small CCN, i.e., the CSS nucleate fewer but larger cloud drops which coalesce to raindrops and precipitate faster20-22, thus leading to weakened DCC. The authors focus on the tropical region to minimize the effects of meteorological disturbances and maximize the role of DCC . . .
  

   

  

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