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Wow, it reaches Poland? I can only imagine what a volcano or an asteroid would cause. I still remember the April 2010 when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted
by petre 6y ago
Wow, it reaches Poland? I can only imagine what a volcano or an asteroid would cause. I still remember the April 2010 when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland causing 100k flight cancellations and a very rainy summer.
- pif 6y agoSahara sand likes long journeys: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
- chrisweekly 6y agowhoah! I had no idea transatlantic Saharan dust was a thing, let alone that it delivers phosphorous to things growing in South America!
- ornornor 6y agoThat’s why we’re so fucked if we ever manage to break global weather in such a way that sand doesn’t go from the Sahara to the rest of the world anymore.
- Aerroon 6y agoRichard Hammond did a pop-science series about the weather and it talked about how dust from deserts can move very far. It's an interesting watch: https://youtu.be/DeYvP2A3QvU&t=8m20s https://youtu.be/DeYvP2A3QvU&t=8m20s The dust particles bounce against one another and propel some of the particles higher and higher up into the atmosphere. Then the winds can carry them very far.
- datameta 6y agoReal-time simulation of the Chixculub impact that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event: https://youtu.be/ya3w1bvaxaQ https://youtu.be/ya3w1bvaxaQ