Aurora experts need to talk about STEVE
New ionospheric mechanism may cause narrow bands of purple and white light
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Read article: Aurora experts need to talk about STEVE
Where does urban mercury come from?
Passive samplers map out fugitive emissions sources in Toronto
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Gravity waves make clouds disappear
Understanding the causes of rapid cloud dispersal could provide new insights into heating processes within the Earth’s atmosphere
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Why is winter air responding to pollution cuts so slowly?
Pollution plume measurements in US reveal chemistry of particulate formation is to blame
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Dust plume in ‘red sun’ event was highly charged
Balloon-borne measurements of 2017 UK event could improve dust transport models
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Hurricanes set to become wetter
Study finds average 24% increase in rainfall if 22 named storms had formed in a warmer world
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Deaths from storm surges have dropped
But climate change could counteract improvements in warning and evacuation
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Pollution boosts risk of lightning
Skies with higher aerosol concentrations show more activity, even when weather ruled out as common factor
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Boost needed for space-based Earth observation, say US academics
US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine plot course for next decade
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Lightning creates radioactive isotopes
Radiation from delayed nuclear decays spotted in thunderstorm
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