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

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing notable changes to atmospheric science, particularly with the introduction of large AI weather models like Pangu Weather and GraphCast. However, alongside ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Supriya Chakrabarti, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology will ...

Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on ...

Human activities continue to pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, raising global ...

Highly accurate measurement of atmospheric temperature is key to building better models for the evolution of atmospheric systems. This is because small thermodynamic fluctuations in the atmosphere can ...

From the persistent droughts of southern Africa and Central America in the early part of the year to the more recent devastating extreme rainfall in Spain and the deadly Hurricane Helene along America ...

Laurence S. Rothman (Air Force Geophysics Directorate, Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.): "Most molecules have strong absorption features in the infrared and microwave region of the ...

Dr. Kulikov became a part of the Department of Physics in 2022. Prior to that, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics (with a focus on Applied Optics) from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2011 and began ...