Both Otis and John underwent extremely rapid intensification that turned them from modest tropical storms into major ...

The U.S. government is scaling back weather balloon launches. Here is why a weather balloon is such an important tool for ...

These instrument packages are attached to weather balloons that lift them through the troposphere, or the lowest layer of ... Balloon-launch gaps are only one example of critical meteorological ...

March 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer. This international agreement laid the foundation for the global protection of the stratospheric ...

Boundary currents in the ocean impact our climate on a wide range of scales. The Gulf Stream, for example, being one of the prominent western boundary ...

The crowning example is the first Earth Observing System (EOS ... Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT). Collectively, these ...

The Met Office has issued a new statement on a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event caused by a polar vortex collapse.

They explain that recent extreme cold and snow events have been linked to the surface effects of sudden stratospheric warmings, citing examples ... lower down in the troposphere.