Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

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 ...

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

Neighborhood organizations can also use the data to inform heat-safety outreach by, for example, calling or texting people when temperatures climb to dangerous levels. “Heat is a hyper-local impact.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

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 ...

“As greenhouse gas concentrations rise, they warm the troposphere where we live but cool and contract the upper atmosphere—the stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere,” William ...

Sometimes there is an obvious lag between the troposphere and the stratosphere. For example, after a polar vortex disruption, the largest signal appears in the stratosphere and then descends to ...

Different types of wind lidars with the wavelength from ultraviolet (UV) to near-infrared (NIR) allow measurements in different altitude regions of the atmosphere from the atmospheric boundary layer ...