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Arctic haze
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English
Etymology
Coined in 1956 by J. Murray Mitchell, a US Air Force officer stationed in Alaska.
Noun
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A visible reddish-brown springtime haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic, due to anthropogenic air pollution.