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Showing posts with label Atmospheric Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atmospheric Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Atmospheric Science: In-Depth Description

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Atmospheric Science is the comprehensive study of the Earth's atmosphere, its physical and chemical processes, and the interactions betw...

Multimodel isotope simulations reveal unified picture of Earth’s water cycle

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Rice University Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : A standardized multimodel e...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Paleoclimatology: In-Depth Description

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Paleoclimatology is the scientific study of climates in the geologic past. It aims to reconstruct Earth’s climate history to understand how ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Climatology: In-Depth Description

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Climatology is the scientific study of climate, defined as weather conditions averaged over a long period. While meteorology focuses on shor...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Course correction needed quickly to avoid pathway to ‘hothouse Earth’ scenario

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Panoramic photo of Allan Hills, Antarctica. Photo Credit: Austin Carter, COLDEX. Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main ...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Why methane surged in the early 2020s

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Gerard Rocher-Ros researches the water bodies' emissions of greenhouse gases. Photo Credit: Mattias Pettersson Scientific Frontline: ...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Parts of the tropics may warm more than expected as CO2 rises

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The Bogotá Basin, home to 11 million people, may experience higher temperatures than scientists thought previously as the planet warms. Phot...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Meteorology: In-Depth Description

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Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. Deriving from the...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Warning signs for extreme flash flooding

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Identification of a three-layered ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Wood, coal, and kitchen fumes: The sources of Sarajevo’s smog have been identified

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André Prévôt is a scientist in the PSI Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences. Together with researchers from eight countries, he reve...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Microplastics in the atmosphere: higher emissions from land areas than from the ocean

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Terrestrial sources...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Arctic has entered a new era of extreme weather

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Cassiope tetragona killed by a rain-on-snow event. Photo Credit: R Treharne Extreme weather events have become significantly more common in ...
Monday, January 5, 2026

New research may help scientists predict when a humid heat wave will break

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Caption:MIT scientists have identified a key atmospheric condition that determines how hot and humid midlatitude regions like the Midwest ca...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Ultra-high-resolution Lidar Reveals Hidden Cloud Structures

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This experimental setup at Michigan Technological University allows researchers to create and study clouds under carefully controlled condit...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Heat and drought change what forests breathe out

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Qingyuan County forest research site Photo Credit: Kai Huang/UCR Scientists have long warned that rising global temperatures would force for...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Earth Science: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image Earth Science is the comprehensive study of the planet Earth, encompassing its physical com...
Monday, November 3, 2025

The crystal that makes clouds rain

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The experiments have to be performed in the dark Photo Credit: Technische Universität Wien No one can control the weather, but certain cloud...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

What Is: A Greenhouse Gas

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Image Credit: Skeptical Science ( CC BY 4.0 ) A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a constituent of the atmosphere that absorbs and emits longwave radi...

Trillions of insects fly above us - weather radar reveals alarming declines

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The marmalade hoverfly is a well known migrant that comes across the Channel each year. Photo Credit: Christopher Hassall Scientists have ma...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Rivers in the Sky, Arctic Warming, and What this Means for the Greenland Ice Sheet

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Photo Credit: Beau Mori  “Atmospheric rivers” are large-scale extreme weather systems that are making headlines more frequently. When viewed...