An international research team has found that recent heatwaves in the North Pacific may be linked to the massive reduction of aerosols from Chinese factories. The decrease in aerosols, which can reflect the sun’s heat back into space, has been associated with increased warming along Asia’s coastal regions, the development of high-pressure systems and subsequently more intense low-pressure systems in the central Pacific, leading to hotter conditions.

Bob Yirka writes in »Computer models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols« for phys.org

Noting that aerosols can act like mirrors floating in the air, reflecting heat from the sun back into space, and also pointing out that earlier research efforts had suggested that massive reductions of aerosols in one place could lead to warming in other places—they wondered if reductions of aerosols in China might be playing a role in the heat waves that began happening in the north Pacific.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.