The "age of stratospheric air" measures the speed of the global transport circulation in the stratosphere, which is crucial ...

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The Earth has a fascinating atmosphere that contains several unique layers. The Troposphere is the layer that we live in, it ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek ...

As the rainy season fizzles out, the California reservoirs are seeing “well-above average” water levels, setting up a positive scenario for the dry, summer months, Jay Lund, a professor and ...

In the summer and winter, the lakes separate into distinct temperature layers: warmer at the surface in summer and colder in winter. It's why ice forms at the surface during winter and doesn't sink.

Humankind will soon lose a great deal of vigilance over the ozone layer, which shields life on ... Meanwhile, NASA is considering the Stratosphere Troposphere Response using Infrared Vertically ...