Arctic haze

English

Etymology

Coined in 1956 by J. Murray Mitchell, a US Air Force officer stationed in Alaska.

Noun

Arctic haze (countable and uncountable, plural Arctic hazes)

  1. A visible reddish-brown springtime haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic, due to anthropogenic air pollution.
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