Tiny aerosol particles could supercharge tropical storm clouds

MAP Verified Summary — reported by Science Daily

Scientists discovered unusually high water-vapor supersaturation inside deep tropical clouds, creating conditions in which tiny aerosol particles could intensify storm updrafts. The finding suggests earlier studies may have missed the effect because they were looking in the wrong types of clouds.

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