Continental (pollution) drift.Many regions of Australia are in the grip of a drought that has been going on for more than five years. Now, scientists with the Australian research agency CSIRO CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia) have found that air pollution in Asia is affecting weather patterns in Australia. The researchers used a new computer climate model that shows aerosol pollution is changing the balance of wind and temperature between Asia and Australia, due to the cooling effect in the atmosphere of the haze of tiny particles from industrial and domestic sources that keeps solar radiation solar radiation, n the emission and diffusion of actinic rays from the sun. Overexposure may result in sunburn, keratosis, skin cancer, or lesions associated with photosensitivity. from reaching the Earth's surface Noun 1. Earth's surface - the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" surface . Currently, the effect is causing more rain in the northwest and center of Australia, and less precipitation in the more populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. south and east regions of the continent. edited by Erin E. Dooley |
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