High in the clouds, atmospheric aerosols, including anthropogenic air pollutants, increase updraft speeds in storm clouds by making the surrounding air more humid, a new study finds. The results offer ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Usually when we talk about thunderstorms we ...

This looks like it could be a fabric print, but in fact you’re looking at magnified view of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh-Benard convection, as temperature differences drive the motion of silicone ...

July 5, 2022 – Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into ...