After a snowstorm hit much of the Portland metro area on Thursday, multiple school districts elected to close schools on Friday. As snow falls throughout the Pacific Northwest, cameras are busy ...

The study of the processes that lead to the formation, growth, and precipitation of clouds in the boundary layer of the lower atmosphere. Develops models and analyzes observations to understand the ...

SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...

With that the amount of alumina released into the mesosphere and upper stratosphere — the otherwise pristine middle layers of the atmosphere ... t an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's ...

For example, millions of weather stations all around ... weather has on the atmosphere. "The high-energy solar particles can change ozone chemistry and disrupt the ozone layer," Sato said.

Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation, from snow and sleet to freezing rain and plain old rain. Here's when each type falls.

"It reacts with harmful trace gases including carbon monoxide and methane in the lowest layer of the atmosphere ... of atmospheric cleaning capacity. "All four factors—nitrogen oxides, ozone ...

Atmospheric science is the study of the dynamics and chemistry of the layers of gas that surround ... interactions between various parts of the atmosphere as well as interactions with the oceans ...

And this is the case pretty much all summer long ... Most ozone in Earth's atmosphere is in a layer between 10 and 30 kilometres above the ground, where it helps block UV radiation from the ...

Blue data are measured from air extracted from Antarctic ice cores and the overlying compressed snow (firn) layer. Orange data show the modern in situ record ... Vertical arrows indicate CO 2 fluxes ...