Above: Marine stratocumulus clouds in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula on September 12, 2018. Northwesterly winds are creating a spiraling Kármán vortex street in the clouds in the ...

Professor Tapio Schneider discusses a new study examining the relationship between stratocumulus cloud formation and high levels of atmospheric CO2 DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris, ...

A blanket of strange pock-marked clouds has been spotted by NASA satellites off the coast of Chile. A picture of the beautiful cloud formations taken in August last year was featured as NASA Earth ...

Stratocumulus clouds spread out like puffy cotton balls in orderly rows above the ocean in the sub-tropics. The low-hovering clouds provide the planet shade and help keep Earth cool. But in a new ...

Here is a small sampling of the many things climate change has already ruined: Greenland, human mental health, and the very cute bramble cay. Now, as scientists predict in a controversial Nature ...

Clouds help regulate Earth's temperature. They bring life-giving rain to different regions. All of us at one time or another have looked to the sky and watched the clouds. Clouds can be picturesque; ...

When's the last time you went cloud-gazing? Sinking, rising, spreading, changing—there’s always something exciting happening to the clouds overhead. The big puffy ones—what are they called? And the ...

In elementary school, most of us learned that clouds are more than chill accessories of the sky — they’re also an important part of the water cycle, the way water moves around the planet. But clouds ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT This study examines the influence of the northeast and southeast Pacific subtropical stratocumulus cloud regions on the modes of ...

Noel Kirkpatrick is an editor and writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He covers many topics, including animals, science, and the environment. We stare at clouds all the time, whether trying to figure ...