An idealized climate model suggests polar warming stabilizes the jet stream and reduces atmospheric blocking at midlatitudes.
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Modeling Waves in the Atmosphere
How can a complex atmospheric process be simplified for a model?
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Colorado Hydrocarbon Leakage Rates Much Higher Than Reported
Airborne measurements put methane emissions from Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin at 12 to 26 tons per hour.
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Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Hit a Minimum 5,000 Years Ago
A new ice core measurements-based record of a climate-active gas shows variability on millennial timescales.
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Coastal Fog, Climate Change, and the Environment
To climate scientists, marine fog's physical opacity symbolizes how much remains to be discovered about the atmospheric phenomenon.
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What Causes Nitric Oxide to Infiltrate the Ozone Layer?
Processes in the polar atmosphere can cause nitric oxide (NO)-enriched air to descend and destroy stratospheric ozone. Scientists explore one cause of these NO fluxes, stratospheric sudden warming.
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Upper Atmosphere Has Cooled Steadily for Three Decades
Scientists projected that the upper atmosphere would continue to cool and contract with rising greenhouse gas emissions. Now, these projections have been confirmed for the first time.
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Role of Lunar Atmospheric Tides in Thermosphere Density
Researchers explored how lunar gravity affects the density of the thermosphere. The study could help improve the accuracy of satellite orbit predictions.
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Measuring Solar Wind Interactions in Mars’s Exosphere
An updated analytical technique gave researchers a new look at ion cyclotron waves in Mars’s extended hydrogen exosphere.
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Exploring the Origin of High-Energy Particle Beams in the Atmosphere
Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration; Yerevan, Armenia, 22–26 September 2014