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Researchers examine images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover to see how Martian sand dunes form.

Curiosity Spies Shifting Sands on Mars

by Mark Zastrow 29 June 201728 July 2022

Images from the rover’s pioneering encounter with sand dunes on Mars constrain wind speeds required to move sand in the thin Martian atmosphere.

Researchers untangle how changes in wind direction influence tropical storms

Research Spotlights

How Shifting Winds Turn Tropical Storms into Hurricanes

by E. Underwood 27 June 201710 December 2022

Researchers present a novel method for analyzing how wind shear affects tropical cyclone strength and structure.

Scientists get a glimpse of what’s going on beneath Jupiter’s thick cloud layer

Research Spotlights

Huge Storms Disrupted Jupiter’s Fastest Jet Stream in 2016

by Sarah Stanley 27 June 201717 February 2023

Recurrent jet stream disturbances provide glimpses of what lies beneath the gas giant’s thick upper cloud cover.

Researchers model waves to understand how wind drives mixing in lake waters

Research Spotlights

How Does Wind Push Water?

by E. Underwood 22 June 20174 February 2022

A new 3-D model shows how wind affects hydrodynamic mixing in a northern Italian lake.

Tethered lifting system, turbine, and flux tower taken during fieldwork for project with a broad aim of measuring wind energy over Europe.

Science Updates

Monitoring Wind in Portugal’s Mountains Down to Microscales

by H. J. S. Fernando, J. K. Lundquist and S. Oncley 31 May 20177 October 2021

Researchers are now gathered for the Perdigão field campaign, an effort to study wind flow physics at scales down to tens of meters. The effort should help engineers harness wind energy in Europe.

For 17,000 years, rain has washed sediments down the slopes of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, depositing them in Lake Ohau.

Science Updates

Shifting Winds Write Their History on a New Zealand Lake Bed

by G. B. Dunbar, M. J. Vandergoes and R. H. Levy 16 May 201715 February 2023

A team of scientists finds a year-by-year record of climate history spanning the past 17,000 years at the bottom of a South Island lake.

Researchers track waters from the Mediterranean where they meet the Black Sea to see how they interact.

Research Spotlights

Big Storms Pump Mediterranean Water Far into the Black Sea

by Sarah Stanley 11 April 20176 February 2023

For the first time, scientists provide a sea-wide view of what happens to Mediterranean waters that flow into the Black Sea through the Bosporus Strait.

Clouds from a dust storm in Mars's atmosphere..

Research Spotlights

Mars's Atmosphere Matches Earth's Turbulent Nature

by Mark Zastrow 9 November 201616 September 2022

Mars is even more like Earth than we thought, according to a statistical analysis of the planet's swirling atmosphere.

The stratosphere, seen here as the blue region above the red-orange troposphere, sports a mysterious wind anomaly in its quasi-biennial oscillation, scientists say.

Research Spotlights

Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern

by Sarah Stanley 2 September 201629 March 2022

For the first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in the equatorial stratosphere.