LiveScience: This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. With its sea turtles and surf shops, the Big Island of Hawaii resembles a tropical, watery world. Yet for climate scientists, it’s the ideal place to study low-humidity air and the processes that dehydrate the atmosphere. From the sprawling dome of Mauna Loa – 11,000 feet above Hawaii’s coconut-fringed beaches – climate scientists David Noone and Joe Galewsky can …