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Indian Ocean Experiment
The
Indian Ocean
Experiment
was a
1999
multinational
scientific study
designed to
measure
the transport of
air pollution
from
Southeast Asia
into the Indian Ocean.
The project
was led by
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
.
Findings
Plumes of
sulfates
,
smoke
particles
, and other
anthropogenic
aerosols
blowing
over the Indian Ocean was
blocking
sunlight
and promoting
cloud formation
.
The amount of sunlight
reaching
the
Earth's surface
was
reduced
by
10%
.
