Cassella: Chaos in Jet Streams

Cassella: Chaos in Jet Streams

Writing for Science Alert, Carla Cassella (@carlycassella) highlights chaotic new patterns in jet streams, the currents of air that wrap around the planet. The currents are splitting at such an extreme rate that the experts Cassella quotes used words like “insane” to...

Rickey: A Cloud is Born

Tom Rickey, writing for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, tells about making a cloud in a laboratory —including a video. The lab clouds are teeny specimens, but the molecular details of their formation help environmental scientists understand the conditions that...