Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

The ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, but exactly how much is uncertain. For instance, estimates from the 2023 Global ...

Microwave Radiation Imager for the Rainfall Mission (MWRI-RM) is a conical scanning total power radiometer on board the Fengyun-3G (FY-3G) satellite, consisting 26 channels operating at frequency ...

The image above, provided by NASA, highlights how all three heat-transfer methods (conduction, convection, and radiation) work in the same environment. What is Conduction?

Imagine standing in a field and witnessing what appears to be a tornado made entirely of fire, spinning violently through the ...

For different atmospheric and surface conditions, the algorithm coefficients are calculated using a statistical regression method from the numerical values simulated with the atmospheric radiative ...

The curriculum 2025W currently applies to the Master's Programme Environmental Meteorology and Climate Physics.

Collectively, man-made emissions of a few greenhouse gases may cause about the same amount of global warming as increasing carbon dioxide. Among the most potent of these non-CO2 greenhouse gases are ...

Weakly absorbing reactive trace gases play important roles in the atmospheric environment and usually have short lifetimes ranging from seconds to days. HIRAS-II, the second hyperspectral infrared ...

Climate scientist Erkin Abdulahatov has warned that a radioactive incident at Iran’s nuclear facilities could affect Uzbekistan under certain summer weather conditions, though current radiation levels ...

This article was originally published with the title “Absorption and Radiation of the Solar Atmosphere” in SA Supplements Vol. 85 No. 2215supp (June 1918), p. 377 doi:10.1038 ...