{"id":219198,"date":"2025-08-01T04:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/particle-pattern-reveals-how-desert-dust-facilitates-ice-formation-in-clouds"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:24:05","slug":"particle-pattern-reveals-how-desert-dust-facilitates-ice-formation-in-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/particle-pattern-reveals-how-desert-dust-facilitates-ice-formation-in-clouds","title":{"rendered":"Particle pattern reveals how desert dust facilitates ice formation in clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/particle-pattern-reveals-how-desert-dust-facilitates-ice-formation-in-clouds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth\u2019s Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds reflect and how they produce rain and snow\u2014with major implications for climate projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth\u2019s Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds reflect and how they produce rain and snow\u2014with major implications for climate projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}