Pores in atmospheric particles allow water to condense, leading to the formation of ice crystals in humid but unsaturated air. This is a new way of thinking of ice crystal formation in clouds, ...

Cirrus clouds play a key role in Earth's radiative balance and climate. This study uses radar and lidar data from A-Train satellites, combined with the Identification and Classification of Cirrus ...

The radiative climate and environmental effects of cirrus clouds is an international cutting-edge field of scientific research in the atmospheric sciences. Understanding how the characteristics of ...

Daniel Cziczo, professor and head of Purdue University's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, said that, surprisingly, scientists didn't previously have a full understanding of ...

FEATHERY cirrus clouds are beautiful, but when it comes to climate change, they are the enemy. Found at high-altitude and made of small ice crystals, they trap heat – so more cirrus means a warmer ...

In the right conditions, airplane contrails can linger in the sky as contrail cirrus -- ice clouds that can trap heat inside the atmosphere. Their climate impact has been largely neglected in schemes ...