Explosive tropical volcanic eruptions can set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere that weakens the Asian summer monsoon ...

Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, combine various past climate data to investigate the impacts of ...

Volcanoes are both captivating and disastrous. Most are likely familiar with the common short-term dangers associated with them: explosive forces, lava, and even atmospheric particles disrupting air ...

With a new lab-based experiment, researchers in the UK and France have recreated the characteristic cascades of energy and angular momentum that underpin key features of Earth's atmosphere. Reporting ...

The daughter of former NOAA research scientist, Wenhao Dong, posed that exact question to her father when she was in first grade. “She was listening to the report about an atmospheric river over ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

"Selected papers presented at the summer institute titled Physics of the upper atmosphere which was conducted by the Physics Department of the University of Texas at El Paso in cooperation with the ...