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 ...

But what is wind, and where does it come from? The Earth has a layer of air around it, called the atmosphere - and it isn’t equally spread. In some places, the atmosphere is thicker – there is ...

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

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

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 ...

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