Weather has always been a subject of fascination and intrigue shaping the course of human history and everyday life. From ...

Scientists are closely studying whether climate change is altering cloud formation processes and creating new or rarely seen cloud types in Earth’s atmosphere. Warming temperatures changing air ...

At the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, particle physicist Jasper Kirkby studies the link between aerosols, cosmic rays and cloud formation, using the data to inform climate models. “It’s ...

Jackson, R., J. R. French, D. C. Leon, D. M. Plummer, S. Lasher-Trapp, A. M. Blyth, and A. Korolev, 2018: Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective ...

A measure to ban geoengineering in Arizona has been amended to allow cloud seeding, which has been under study for years.

Scientists have long debated the role of clouds in climate change, with some arguing that they would make temperatures warmer while others arguing they might help cool the atmosphere. This is ...

Scientists create mathematical representations, or models, of the climate system to help predict ... that pertain specifically to storm formation like cloud top pressure and water vapor, among ...

Aerosols are vital for cloud formation because a subset of them ... growth times to reach sizes at which they easily fall as precipitation. This effect, called the cloud lifetime effect, may ...

cloud formation and precipitation processes. The output from these models has been archived and made available to the scientific community. It is an invaluable resource, allowing extensive model ...

Scientists release silver iodide from airplanes in most cloud-seeding operations, spurring ice formation and allowing precipitation to occur sooner. Betterton conducted a cloud seeding program ...