The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...

In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the ...

The researchers focused on longwave radiation, the heat energy Earth emits back into the atmosphere. Usually, clouds trap some of this heat and send it back to the ground. But as the climate warms ...

Solar radiation entering earth's atmosphere is predominantly short wave, while heat radiated from the Earth's surface is long wave. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gases in ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

The temperature of the Earth depends on many factors including the concentration of greenhouse gases such as water vapour, methane and carbon dioxide. The Earth also radiates lower frequency ...

The rest is absorbed by water vapour, dust and clouds, or is reflected by the Earth's surface and scattered by particles in the air. Reflected heat, in the form of long-wave radiation, is trapped ...

A discovery made by a Nasa CubeSat has revealed that the historic solar storm of 2024, which caused the aurora borealis to be visible as far south as Florida and the northern Caribbean, also produced ...

The researchers focused on longwave radiation, the heat energy Earth emits back into the atmosphere. Usually, clouds trap some of this heat and send it back to the ground. But as the climate warms ...

More information: Liu et al, Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08323-x Provided by McGill University ...