Atmospheric desert dust has long swirled around the globe, but a new UCLA study presents the strongest evidence yet that ...

In a new report, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) concludes that global warming is expected to exceed 1.5°C ...

Pluto’s atmosphere may finally be thinning as it moves farther from the sun, with observations suggesting atmospheric pressure has fallen by as much as 16%.

Pluto’s hazy, multilayered atmosphere is thinning out as it enters the coldest part of the Plutonian year. Above, the ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate courses covering topics ranging from oceanography to geomorphology to cloud physics. This course ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The weather radar is something many of us turn to when severe weather starts rolling in. We watch the colors — light colors feel harmless and the dark colors feel scary — but those colors actually ...

"This big picture history of atmospheric research examines the first six decades of the twentieth century, from the dawn of applied fluid dynamics to the emergence, by 1960, of the interdisciplinary ...

The following table is a ranking of the leading institutions in Atmospheric Sciences based on their research output in the 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals tracked by the ...