“Where these low clouds are, the air weighs around one kilogram for every cubic meter – 4,000 times more than the water did,” ...
Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with critical information about incoming weather patterns. If you’re a local hiker ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Clouds are usually a popular weather topic because they can seem like familiar shapes or fun colors. This week, the sky put on a show and our Coastal Bend Weather Watchers ...
Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue, silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically ...
On a warm day in January of last year, Martin Heinritzi peered from a window of his research plane, spotting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. “We were focused on what is directly coming out of the reef ...
The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...
Graduate students analyze cloud formation data with research scientist Jesse Anderson, using the Pi Cloud Chamber to study atmospheric processes. × Michigan Tech's Pi Cloud Chamber is giving ...