Four-Foot-Tall Snow Globe is Created to Investigate Hidden Source of Snow Melt for Climate Modeling

How do you do snow-aerosol experiments without going to the field? You create a four-foot-tall snow globe for the research lab.

“We’ll be dropping atomized water droplets into the top of the chamber, creating snow, then deposit aerosols on it,” said Ganesh Chelluboyina, 5th-year PhD candidate at WashU.

Researchers are studying dark brown carbon deposition from wildfires which can accelerate the snow melting process of midlatitude glaciers.

The new research could go a long way ensuring accurate climate models and measurements.

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