To understand what a heat dome is, some basic concepts in meteorology, such as atmospheric pressure, are important to know. As the Earth spins and the sun warms the planet, eddies of dense air ...

There has been a lot of talk about the term “atmospheric river” in the last month or so. Some feel the term is now being overused or even misused. So what is an atmospheric river? The term first ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Along the U.S. West Coast, atmospheric rivers are dreaded for the damage they can cause, but they are also essential to the region’s snowpack and water supply, as Qian Cao, a ...

Barometric pressure sensors measure atmospheric pressure in a variety of applications, providing crucial data for weather forecasting, altitude measurement, and environmental monitoring. In the field ...

MADISON, Wis. - The terminology CAP or atmospheric CAP is not new however, the atmospheric CAP plays an important role in every day weather production. If the CAP is strong enough it can limit or ...

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

Have headaches appeared since Tropical Storm Debby moved through Georgia and the Savannah area? There is likely a reason for that, and it's not just the stress associated with Debby's continuous ...

Atmospheric pressure plasma processing and machining represent a transformative suite of techniques that utilise ionised gases, or plasmas, at ambient pressures to perform high-precision material ...