Much of the Earth’s recent warming stems from temperature measurements from locations “urban heat island” effected locations.

From an orbit 36,000 km from Earth, the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite (MTG-S) is set to revolutionize the way ...

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Everyone knows what a river is, but do you know about the concept of an atmospheric river? The majority of water vapor ...

Nitrates in the atmosphere reduce air quality and play an important role in climate change. An international team led by ...

A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the ...

Is air rewriting the rules of climate science? NASA’s announcement last week of an atmospheric shift over North America is ...

Think of the inversion like a lid, or barrier in the atmosphere. When sound waves ... denser air remained — a stout temperature inversion developed as a result. That's why the thunder was ...

That same layer of warm air created a temperature inversion. That temperature inversion acted like a lid in the atmosphere. The sound waves created by the lightning’s rapid heating of the air ...

Normally, as you go higher into the atmosphere the air gets cooler, but during a temperature inversion, warm air sits above cooler air near the ground. This shift in temperature plays a key role ...