{"195271":{"#nid":"195271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Shows Pollution Doesn\u0027t Affect Rate of Cloud Droplet Formation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/15\/1219591110\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology researchers report that organic coatings on particles don\u2019t seem to significantly affect the rate at which droplets form.\u0026nbsp;This research is based on droplet formation measurements, both\u0026nbsp;aerial and ground-based, from ten different areas, including Atlanta, the Gulf of Mexico, and Los Angeles.\u0026nbsp;\u201cIt turns out that it doesn\u2019t matter how much goop you have \u2013 or don\u2019t have \u2013 the droplets take the same time to form,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Athanasios_Nenes\u0022\u003EAthanasios Nenes\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;For the full article, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/research\/news\/pollution-doesn%E2%80%99t-change-rate-cloud-droplet-formation-study-shows\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27741","created_gmt":"2013-02-26 11:18:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:44","author":"Katie Brown","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"189651":{"id":"189651","type":"image","title":"Cloud Formation Nenes","body":null,"created":"1449179848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:57:28","changed":"1475894838","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:18","alt":"Cloud Formation Nenes","file":{"fid":"196239","name":"nenes-43-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nenes-43-cropped_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nenes-43-cropped_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":800286,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nenes-43-cropped_0.jpg?itok=saNr9A5G"}},"192561":{"id":"192561","type":"image","title":"Cloud formation chamber","body":null,"created":"1449179879","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:57:59","changed":"1475894843","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:23","alt":"Cloud formation chamber","file":{"fid":"196322","name":"droplet-formation98.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/droplet-formation98_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/droplet-formation98_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1668857,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/droplet-formation98_0.jpg?itok=P-vD8ai4"}}},"media_ids":["189651","192561"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/research\/news\/pollution-doesn%E2%80%99t-change-rate-cloud-droplet-formation-study-shows","title":"Georgia Tech Newsroom"},{"url":"http:\/\/nenes.eas.gatech.edu\/","title":"Nenes\u0027s Research Page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/15\/1219591110","title":"Worldwide data sets constrain the water vapor uptake coef\ufb01cient in cloud formation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKatie Brown\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-2299\u003Cbr \/\u003Enews@chbe.gatech.edu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}