Every cloud is different from the next. It is therefore important to study the types of cloud systems in which aerosols have the greatest influence. Image: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology / ...

The global climate is a complex system—something that isn't simply controlled by the concentration of a single greenhouse gas or one type of cloud in the sky. Researchers have completed a study on the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While most scientists today agree that global warming is indeed taking place, determining the ...

Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

Scientists have begun to penetrate a mystery of climate change: the effects of smoke from forest and agricultural fires on the future warming of the Earth and how it influences the behavior of clouds.

Atmospheric particles affect cloud formation in real time, researchers suggest. Clouds need tiny particles called aerosols that rise in the atmosphere, in order to form. These aerosols -- natural ones ...