New satellite launched by ESA uses Infrared Sounder instrument to form the most detailed map of Earth's atmosphere.

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The short answer is no, it doesn’t change our temperatures, create storms, or impact rain or snow chances. That’s because our everyday weather happens in the lowest part of the atmosphere, called the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — We have a whole set of different weather ingredients to measure the atmosphere. Just like going to the medical doctor to check your vital signs, a meteorologist is checking the vital ...

It’s been an unsettled winter in the atmosphere above Antarctica. About 30 kilometers above the continent’s icy surface, in the layer known as the stratosphere, a series of warming events took place ...

parameters, allowing us to establish a pole-to-pole climatology.” TIDI measurements will provide important information on such upper- atmosphere phenomena as gravity waves, airglow and auroral ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

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If you’re feeling “under the weather” these days, you’re probably human. We all are feeling it, whether we’re aware of it or not. Our health remains tethered to the air and light around us, despite ...