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, ...

Graduate students analyze cloud formation data with research scientist Jesse Anderson, using the Pi Cloud Chamber to study atmospheric processes. × Michigan Tech's Pi Cloud Chamber is giving ...

Ground-based and satellite observations in the United States show that increased pollen concentrations in spring lead to more cloud ice and more precipitation – even at temperatures between minus 15 ...

Miriam Freedman (left), professor of chemistry at Penn State, and Heidi Busse, a graduate student at Penn State, studied the freezing activity of four different types of microplastics to see how they ...

The atmosphere is full of tiny particles floating invisible to the naked eye, yet these microscopic specks wield extraordinary power over our planet's climate system. From desert dust swept thousands ...

The cleanest chamber ever built is allowing researchers at CERN to track the microscopic processes governing cloud formation, finds Matthew Chalmers Clean climate The CLOUD experiment is sensitive to ...

Jackson, R., J. R. French, D. C. Leon, D. M. Plummer, S. Lasher-Trapp, A. M. Blyth, and A. Korolev, 2018: Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective ...

Scientists have long debated the role of clouds in climate change, with some arguing that they would make temperatures warmer while others arguing they might help cool the atmosphere. This is because ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Miriam Freedman, Penn State and Heidi Busse, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Clouds form ...