Additional resources
If you or your students would like to explore the topic further, these additional resources will be useful.
A quiz, What are aerosols, by NASA's EARTH RIGHT NOW initiative. This quiz can be used as an additional introduction to the topic of aerosols by testing the students' prior knowledge of aerosols and through such enquiry introduces their basic characteristics.
A reading, Climate Change and the Impact of Aerosol- A Literature Review, B. Verheggen and E.P. Weijers, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) This reading provides a literature review to assess the role of aerosols in affecting global climate.
A visualization, Exploring Aerosol Optical Thickness Using MODIS Satellite Imagery in NEO by Science Education Resource Centre (SERC) This lesson plan provides a dataset from NASA Earth Observations for students to explore and use various ways to analyse and represent the data by changing the parameters for observations.