Rare climatic events known as “heat bursts” occur when the air temperature suddenly and locally rises, usually in the middle of the night. Unexpected heat ... Read more The post How Heat Bursts Surge ...

Illustration of daytime-warm-season boundary layer circulations and Cumulus cloud formation over complex terrain. Current research efforts in mesoscale and boundary-layer dynamics utilize novel ...

Exchange processes between the surface and the atmospheric boundary layer Atmospheric aerosol particles Urban ... urban landscape) is mostly driven by turbulent processes. We study the turbulent ...

The study of the processes that lead to the formation, growth, and precipitation of clouds in the boundary layer of the lower atmosphere. Develops models and analyzes observations to understand the ...

Over time, they noticed that the atmosphere had distinct layers. By the early 1900s ... and over the last 40 years, the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere has risen about 200 ...

Thus, forests serve as large water pumps between the soil and the atmosphere. The boundary layer of the canopy is ... the greater the wind turbulence it creates, and the more wind (and therefore ...