Tundra near the Ny-Ålesund village in the summer of 2019 with the Zeppelin Observatory in the background (left-hand side, engulfed in clouds). The tundra is…
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Clouds play a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate, impacting the water cycle, atmospheric dynamics, and energy balance. Studying them, however, has been challenging due…
Trade-wind clouds near Barbados: one plane was used to drop hundreds of atmospheric probes from an altitude of nine kilometers. Credit: MPI-M An airborne campaign…
The findings could help improve climate change prediction models. Cloud study clarifies the effects of aerosols. According to a recent study, aerosol particles in the…
Calf Canyon Fire produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False Color RGB, and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images. Credit: MOAA A massive,…
March 11, 2022. (Click image for high-resolution, wide-field view.) Two eye-catching cloud types—flower-shaped actinoform and spiraling von Kármán vortices—popped up off the coast of Chile…
Clouds are an essential part of the Earth’s climate. Clouds block the sun and shade the ground, cooling the planet’s surface and the atmosphere. They…
Scientists have provided new insights into how intense thunderstorms drive the injection of water vapor from the troposphere — the atmospheric layer closest to Earth’s…
July 18, 2021 Moist ocean air and steady winds pile up thunderheads and anvil clouds around Indonesia. An astronaut onboard the International Space Station shot…
Cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere may be important for cloud formation. Credit: DTU Space Large Effect of Solar Activity on Earth’s Energy Budget This…
The view from the DC-8 research aircraft as flies through the marine boundary layer, the portion of the atmosphere close to the ocean’s surface where…
Princeton UniversityFounded in 1746, Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey and the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in…
A first global assessment using satellite observations shows that for two-thirds of the world, afforestation increases low-level cloud cover, with the effect being strongest over…
June 16, 2021 Noctilucent clouds form so high in the atmosphere that they continue to reflect sunlight hours after sunset, creating a spectacular nighttime display.…
Marine stratocumulus clouds along the California and Baja California coastlines, as revealed by a NASA satellite. These and other low-level clouds are widespread over the…
New research from a team led by scientists at Purdue University has found that trees and plants play an important role in the formation of…
Noctilucent or ‘night shining’ clouds (NLC) are captured over Knowlton Church in Dorset, UK, by astrophotographer Ollie Taylor in the early hours of June 22,…
Click image for full view. In 2008, atmospheric scientist Santiago Gassó authored a study that highlighted abnormally bright trails of clouds around remote peaks in…
These animated images show AIM’s observations from the first week of the Arctic noctilucent cloud season, which began on May 17, 2020. The colors —…