The study's simulations, led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Guy Dagan, tracked conditions in the days after ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...

The Sun appears to break one of nature's most basic rules. Normally, moving away from a heat source should make temperatures ...

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific cleaned up its own methane pollution, offering a potential mechanism for removing this potent greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Climate models suggest this ...

Purdue University research reveals moisture's role in atmospheric blocking, a key driver in extreme weather events, solving a climate mystery and improving forecasts New research from Purdue ...

Every breath a person takes draws from a gas mixture that has barely shifted in recorded history: roughly 78 percent nitrogen ...

The scientific method is applied in a fundamentally different fashion in atmospheric and geophysical sciences than in the laboratory-based physical sciences (i.e., physics, chemistry, etc.). This is a ...

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