weather forecasters will now need to track atmospheric dust to predict hurricanes. Dust may dampen hurricane fury, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying a link between Atlantic hurricanes and thick clouds of dust that periodically rise from the Sahara Desert and blow off Africa's western coast.
Asian Brown Clouds created a lot of heat in South Asia, a few years ago see: Aerial Raid, Down To Earth, August 15, 2002 . Now the chief proponent of the phenomenon, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for A