Atmospheric gravity waves go unnoticed by people on the ground, although they can potentially cause turbulence for aircraft, although this is usually not too severe. This article was updated to ...

Atmospheric gravity waves generated by Hurricane Helene as the storm slammed into the gulf coast of Florida on September 26 (left, right) and satellite image of Hurricane Helene.

Atmospheric gravity waves can be seen in satellite images taken by Australian weather forecast service Weatherzone on Monday and Tuesday.

Watch invisible gravity waves rumble through the atmosphere Date: May 11, 2015 Source: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Summary: Just as waves ripple across a pond when a tossed ...

College students' measurements during a "ring of fire" solar eclipse last year have confirmed a long-held prediction about mysterious gravity waves in Earth's atmosphere.The students confirmed the ...

Atmospheric gravity waves occur naturally in Earth's atmosphere and are formed by Earth's weather and topography. Scientists have studied the enigmatic phenomena for years, but mainly from a few ...

Atmospheric gravity waves take shape from the push and pull between gravity and buoyancy; when air is perturbed, gravity pulls the air down and the air's buoyancy pushes it back up.

"[These are] not cosmological gravity waves, but atmospheric buoyancy waves," said Alan Stern, principle investigator for New Horizons, which made a close flyby of Pluto in July, 2015.

KUSA — Large storms can create waves of energy called gravity waves. NASA scientists say they have found a new method to detect and map them. In May 2013, a powerful tornado hit the Oklahoma ...

Gravity Waves: Oscillatory disturbances in a stably stratified atmosphere generated by buoyancy forces. Momentum Flux: The rate at which momentum is transferred by gravity waves between different ...

Gravity waves, an atmospheric phenomenon distinct from gravitational waves, result from the rising and falling of air packets. On Mars, they facilitate the vertical transfer of angular momentum, ...