Discover how NASA's hurricane hunter and college students are revolutionizing urban atmospheric research over Houston's skies ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation.

A program focused on key storm systems, known as atmospheric rivers, that provides students with hands-on research experience, launched its second season in January. Valparaiso University balloon ...

Across much of the northern hemisphere, extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation have increased in ...

Atmosphere-biosphere interactions play a vital role in regulating the exchange of energy, matter, and gases between the Earth’s atmosphere and its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These ...

Atmospheric sciences encompass the study of Earth’s gaseous envelope and the processes that govern weather, climate and environmental interactions. Research spans from microscale turbulence in the ...

What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...

The scientific method is applied in a fundamentally different fashion in atmospheric and geophysical sciences than in the laboratory-based physical sciences (i.e., physics, chemistry, etc.). This is a ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

UW-Milwaukee’s Atmospheric Science program is a part of the School of Freshwater Sciences. The degree program will close at the end of this school year due to low enrollment and faculty retirements, ...