Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, ...
Jackson, R., J. R. French, D. C. Leon, D. M. Plummer, S. Lasher-Trapp, A. M. Blyth, and A. Korolev, 2018: Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective ...
Airplanes form invisible ice clouds that trap heat. Study explains why contrails matter and how aviation warming has been ...
Atmospheric scientists have reported a new and potentially important mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton may influence the formation of clouds that reflect sunlight away ...
Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week. Here's what's causing it.
December 2025 has been quite active in Maine, with residents experiencing every type of winter precipitation before the New ...
Most winter precipitation starts out as snow, since it’s usually cold enough at the top layer of the cloud to create ...
After some brief sunshine Monday afternoon, clouds will increase again Monday night into Tuesday. Temperatures will remain mild under those clouds, and some areas of fog are possible late Monday night ...
Much of what we know about detailed cloud properties such as cloud hydrometeor size, shape, phase, and concentration, are derived from in situ measurements made on board instrumented aircraft. However ...
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