The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai

Hint: it’s not cloud seeding.

Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition • conversation
today • ~7 min

Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made

Some parts of the Gulf experienced 18 months of rain in a single day.

Richard Washington, Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford • conversation
April 19, 2024 • ~6 min

How is snow made? An atmospheric scientist describes the journey of frozen ice crystals from clouds to the ground

There are an infinite number of paths an ice crystal can take before you touch it.

Alexandria Johnson, Professor of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University • conversation
Feb. 26, 2024 • ~6 min

Are You 'Sitting Pretty'?
VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 11, 2023 • ~3 min

Neptune’s clouds have done a vanishing act

Clouds on Neptune have all but vanished. That's a surprise since it's the farthest planet from the sun and gets only 1/900 of the sunlight we get on Earth.

UC Berkeley • futurity
Aug. 21, 2023 • ~8 min

Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may make it a lot more effective – podcast

Cloud seeding – spraying materials into clouds to increase precipitation – has been around for nearly 80 years. But only recently have scientists been able to measure how effective it really is.

Nehal El-Hadi, Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation • conversation
May 4, 2023 • ~7 min

Air pollution cools climate more than expected – this makes cutting carbon emissions more urgent

The best way to cut air pollution is to burn less fossil fuel.

Philip Stier, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford • conversation
Nov. 16, 2022 • ~7 min

Blame clouds for shrinking high-low temp difference?

The difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world is shrinking. Clouds may be to blame.

Monica Kortsha-UT Austin • futurity
Oct. 27, 2022 • ~6 min

MIT to launch new Office of Research Computing and Data

Professor Peter Fisher will lead effort to grow and enhance computing infrastructure and services for MIT’s research community.

Office of the Vice President for Research • mit
May 5, 2022 • ~7 min

Mismanaged cloud services put user data at risk

Cloud services are convenient, but if an organization isn’t careful about how they use them, the services can also give data thieves an opening.

Eric Pauley, PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State • conversation
April 11, 2022 • ~5 min

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