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Windblown dust may muck up regional climate predictions

Computer simulations don’t accurately portray the airborne particles

HAZY OUTLOOK  Climate simulations’ inability to model windblown particles, like those seen in this dust storm, may render scientists’ climate forecasts inaccurate.

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By Beth Mole

- More than 2 years ago

Dust that capriciously wafts into the atmosphere may cloud climate forecasts.

Using 23 leading computer simulations of global climate, Amato Evan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.,