Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

From the development of new materials that make airplanes lighter to the exploration of alternative fuels, the aviation ...

The UWKA taxiing on an icy tarmac prior to a SNOWIE mission. Example of WCR observations of a snowstorm over complex terrain, from top to bottom reflectivity, (hydrometeor) vertical velocity, and ...

Explore how contrails (trails left behind jets) impact climate and how sustainable aviation aims to reduce this hidden ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

microphysics of polar, midlatitude and tropical clouds, measurements of pollutants in the urban troposphere and assessment of their effects on human health, the response of mesospheric temperatures to ...

Lab Spotlight” is a biweekly column that highlights UW centers, institutions, and labs that are assets to their respective ...

The group has built the world’s largest cloud chamber, the PI Chamber, which draws researchers and students alike to study the microphysics of clouds.

James Ruppert recently sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for a month-long science cruise. Ruppert, a professor at the ...

Environmental Science: Atmospheres welcomes contributions in thermodynamics, microphysics, and chemistry of multiphase systems coupling gases, aerosols and clouds, as well as photochemistry and ...

However, the life cycles of clouds are controlled by an intimate interplay between meteorology and aerosol-and-cloud microphysics, including complex feedback processes, and it has proven difficult ...