Earth and Space Science Archives

Líneas de campo magnético simuladas en amarillo alrededor de la luna de Saturno Triton.

Encontrando los océanos ocultos de las lunas usando campos magnéticos inducidos

by Morgan Rehnberg 5 May 20225 May 2022

Un análisis de componentes principales de modelos especulativos puede predecir con más seguridad que las técnicas anteriores la p^ppresencia de un océano subsuperficial en un objeto planetario.

Three panels adapted from the paper that show moonlight imagery, a low cloud test, and a cloud mask.

Editors' Highlights

When Less is More—The Moon Sheds Light on Clouds at Night

by Jonathan H. Jiang 12 April 202226 April 2022

Shining light into the dark reveals the unseen, but in some cases, it changes our perception of reality. Through moonlight we learn how the environment tricks our ways of finding nocturnal clouds.

Two figures from the paper, showing the orbit path of Ice in the Mesosphere and graph showing the agreement of the daily PMC occurrence rates of the simultaneous observations from Himawari-8/AHI and AIM/Cloud Imaging and Particle Size data..

Editors' Highlights

New Technique Improves Polar Mesospheric Cloud Data Set

by Astrid Maute 7 April 20225 April 2022

A new two-step Polar Mesospheric Cloud detection technique is applied towards the Himawari-8/Advanced Himawari Imager full-disk images leading to a new high-quality dataset.

Plot showing how the height of melting layer is higher than that of the freezing level in cyclones.

Editors' Highlights

Melting Layer Characteristics of Cyclones

by Jonathan H. Jiang 22 March 202221 March 2022

Dual‐frequency Precipitation Radar observations reveal the characteristics and microphysical processes of the melting layer in cyclone precipitation over the western North Pacific.

Simulated magnetic field lines in yellow around Neptune’s moon Triton.

Research Spotlights

Finding Moons’ Hidden Oceans with Induced Magnetic Fields

by Morgan Rehnberg 9 March 20225 May 2022

A principal component analysis of speculative models can more confidently predict the presence of a planetary object’s subsurface ocean than previous techniques.

Research Spotlights

How Do Marine Gases Affect Cloud Formation?

by JoAnna Wendel 25 February 202225 February 2022

By using novel aircraft measurements over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, researchers shed light on the relationship between common marine biogenic gases and the microphysical properties of clouds.