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Better weather forecasts and climate models could come from new desert-dust research
April 28, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, April 28 -- The University of California posted the following news release:

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Better weather forecasts and climate models could come from new desert-dust research

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Key takeaways

* New UCLA research finds that airborne dust traps about twice as much heat as climate models have estimated, even though dust likely cools the planet overall.

* The effect of dust retaining heat is equal to ro . . .

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