The principal tool in the Atmospheric Physics Lab is a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Because the OH stretch (which is an IR active transition) in the water molecule is particularly ...

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical ...

Because they are portable and easy to operate at ambient temperatures, cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) should find innovative applications in biomedicine, materials science and ...

The big picture: scientists have spotted large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. (Courtesy: NASA) The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...