First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

Aurora alert — a coronal hole is spewing fast solar wind toward Earth, potentially boosting geomagnetic activity and ...

But it was Eugene Parker in 1957 who came up with the first theory of the solar wind. He worked out that matter was streaming off – escaping from the sun’s atmosphere into space. At first ...

In the case of hurricanes, wind shear is important primarily in the vertical direction--from the surface to the top of the troposphere. The troposphere is the region of the atmosphere that our ...

Wind is a major sign that the atmosphere is trying to stabilize. High pressure flows to low pressure and New England is ...

The last couple of days have been very windy across the state of Maine, but you may be asking yourself, "What exactly causes ...

1990a, Zaucker & Broecker 1992), while others argue changes in atmospheric circulation were the driver (the wind field oscillation hypothesis) (Clement & Cane 1999, Seager et al. 2002, Seager 2006 ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to ...