Embargo expired: 2/4/2013 3:00 PM EST Source Newsroom: Columbia
University School of Engineering and Applied Science Newswise —
New York, NY—February 4, 2013—Researchers at Columbia
Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology have published a
study in the online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showing—for the first time—that
certain volatile organic gases can promote cloud formation in a
way never considered before by atmospheric scientists. The study
will be published the week of February 4, 2013. “This is the
first time gases have been shown to affect cloud formation in
this way,” says V. Faye McNeill, Associate Professor in Chemical
Engineering at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School for
Engineering and Applied Science, and co-leader of the research
team. “This is a very exciting finding that will improve our
ability to model cloud formation, an important component of
climate.” The research team, co-led by Athanasios Nenes,
Professor & Georgia Power Faculty