As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather ...

Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and ...

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

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

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

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

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As brutally cold conditions gripped the Chicago area this past weekend, a rather peculiar phenomenon surfaced along Lake Michigan.

In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul Ah, the cloud. It sounds dreamlike, ethereal. But of course, when we talk ...

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