Haze from Asia affects Australian rainfall
In this six-minute podcast CSIRO's Dr Leon Rotstayn explains how pollution from Asia may have increased Australia’s tropical rainfall. (6:18)
- 12 December 2006 | Updated 25 November 2011
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Dr Leon Rotstayn from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research has found that haze from Asia is having an effect on the Australian hydrological cycle.
He says it has generated increasing rainfall and cloudiness since 1950, especially over northwest and central Australia.
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