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Research team identifies common environmental conditions for the formation of contrails and provides initial insights into ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

SO much attention has been given of late years to the study of clouds, and so many names have been suggested by different writers for the same form of cloud, that the whole question of cloud forms and ...

Contrails in the blue sky remind us of daily air traffic—and its impact on the climate. However, the effect of contrails on ...

A PHOTOGRAPH of a remarkable cloud, of which a reproduction is shown in Fig. 1, has been received from Prof. I. S. Astapowitsch, of the Astronomical Institute, Fontanka 34, Leningrad. It was observed ...

The first report of this unusual cloud appeared in Weather magazine in 1948, in an article titled “Man-Made Cirrus?” The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first direct analysis of clouds on a nearby alien world. These aren’t just made of water vapor but also sand, which would move around the planet much like ...