What the cloud is made of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYYK2sDN4U
Size and Location
Contributing Factors of Pollution
Role of Monsoons
How the Cloud effects Rainfall
Negative effect on People
Negative Effect on Oceans/
Animals/ Farms
Black carbon (soot) and ash from forest fires,
cooking fires, factory exhaust, Mineral dust from
mining. Sulfates from mining salt, nitrates from
mining, aerosols from hair spray and other spray
cans, other gases and fuels not completely burned
off.
500 M tall, 3,000 M wide, 10,000 sq miles long.
About the size of Mexico. Floats between the
Indian Ocean and the mainland of Asia.
Fossil Fuels and wood burning. Cars, factory
exhaust, inefficient cooking tools.
The monsoons blow the cloud to and from the
Indian Ocean and the mainland. During the wet
monsoon season, the monsoons blow the Asian
Brown Cloud from the Indian Ocean to the land.
During the dry monsoon season, the Asian
Brown Cloud is blown from the land to the
Indian Ocean.
During the monsoon rain season, the Asian
Brown Cloud is rained down as acid rain, ends up
in rivers and streams. During the dry monsoon
season, the cloud cools the Indian Ocean.
Because the Indian Ocean is cooled, there is less
evaporation and therefore less rain produced. =
DROUGHTS
Acid rain in the rivers and streams are drunk by
the people, and the chemicals that build up in
their bodies causes illnesses, such as cancers.
During the dry season, there may not be as much
drinking water due to less rainfall/droughts.
Acid rain that is in the rivers and streams are
drank by the animals or absorbed by the plants
(FOOD), then consumed by people, thus causing
cancers. During the dry monsoon season, the
oceans are cooled, the plankton and other fish
that need sunlight to survive don't grow or
multiply, thus reducing the amount of fish = less
FOOD for people!!!