A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

High above the familiar cotton wool of weather systems, a stranger kind of cloud is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

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

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

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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 ...

Translated to the ground, that means we will see lots of clouds, with periods of drizzle or even fog possible beginning ...

Monday will start cloudy with gradual clearing expected and winds between 5 to 10 mph. The high temperature will range in the ...