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Published online 11 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1017
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How pollution influences the weekend weather
The effects of weekday emissions differ from country to country.
Researchers have pinned down how pollution is changing the weather at weekends in some of the countries in Europe. Spain’s winter weekends, for example, are sunnier, but Iceland’s are wetter.
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Some further work that may be of interest in this area can be found at http://www.graceresearch.com/KeithPotts.pdf This suggests that the effect of aerosols in intertropical zones is a key to alteration of the Hadley cell with serious changes in subsequent weather patterns.