Airplanes form invisible ice clouds that trap heat. Study explains why contrails matter and how aviation warming has been ...

Researchers at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University have, for the first time, determined the climatic impact ...

Cirrus clouds play a key role in Earth's radiative balance and climate. This study uses radar and lidar data from A-Train satellites, combined with the Identification and Classification of Cirrus ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research provides insights into how cirrus clouds form, with implications for agriculture, urban development and climate-change predictions. The study shows that trees and ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

Satellite observations of tropical maritime convection indicate an afternoon maximum in anvil cloud fraction that cannot be explained by the diurnal cycle of deep convection peaking at night. We use ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

The study identifies how cirrus clouds differ based on formation mechanisms. Convective cirrus, common in tropical regions, exhibit the highest ice water content (IWC) and largest ice crystals, with ...

Researchers at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University have, for the first time, determined the climatic impact ...