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A Pristine Pocket of Sky Has Been Identified as Possibly The Cleanest Air on Earth - ScienceAlert

A Pristine Pocket of Sky Has Been Identified as Possibly The Cleanest Air on Earth - ScienceAlert

A Pristine Pocket of Sky Has Been Identified as Possibly The Cleanest Air on Earth - ScienceAlert
Jun 04, 2020 27 secs

We've seen plenty of scientific reports on poor air quality, but a new study takes the opposite approach: using samples collected out on the ocean and some modelling, it identifies what may well be the cleanest pocket of air in Earth's atmosphere.

That pocket is in the Southern Ocean between Tasmania and Antarctica, between 54 and 62 degrees latitude.

"We were able to use the bacteria in the air over the Southern Ocean [SO] as a diagnostic tool to infer key properties of the lower atmosphere," says microbial ecologist Thomas Hill, from Colorado State University.

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