Newswire: 6 Oct 2013 - CERN - CERN's CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change

Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature (://dx.doi.org/, DOI number 10.1038/nature12663), the CLOUD experiment at CERN* reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols - tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air - form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is a key question in understanding the climate, since aerosols cause a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight and by seeding cloud ...