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Read the New York Times today. Ran into this book review, in specific, I ran across this one (dropped in passing) sentence:
The Asian Brown Cloud, a wind-borne industrial smog that originates on China's east coast, can be seen in California as it rides the jet stream.
Just reading that sentence almost completely made me break down, cry, and walk out of work (where I was reading this).
You see, that was my one contribution to the world of meteorology. Obviously I wasn't the only one, and obviously I wasn't the one that made the arguments, but... I saw the data. I was there poring over the graphs, the figures, begging for their one flight out of California to the deep Pacific to take one vertical air sampling off the coast. I took a postulation on it. I was screamed at by the one Chinese data analyst in the lab for it. He told me that I didn't deserve to be there.
Flash forward to five years later.
*looks around*
The Asian Brown Cloud, a wind-borne industrial smog that originates on China's east coast, can be seen in California as it rides the jet stream.
Just reading that sentence almost completely made me break down, cry, and walk out of work (where I was reading this).
You see, that was my one contribution to the world of meteorology. Obviously I wasn't the only one, and obviously I wasn't the one that made the arguments, but... I saw the data. I was there poring over the graphs, the figures, begging for their one flight out of California to the deep Pacific to take one vertical air sampling off the coast. I took a postulation on it. I was screamed at by the one Chinese data analyst in the lab for it. He told me that I didn't deserve to be there.
Flash forward to five years later.
*looks around*