MILWAUKEE -- Probably, at some point in your life, you've seen a weather map similar to the picture below. It has red Ls and blue Hs all over the place, representing low and high pressure. Looking ...

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical ...

The principal tool in the Atmospheric Physics Lab is a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Because the OH stretch (which is an IR active transition) in the water molecule is particularly ...

Happy Monday, and welcome to another edition of Beyond The Forecast! One of the most helpful pieces of data we have in forecasting is atmospheric pressure. It can be hard to tell on a generic day, but ...

WashU physicists build quantum sensors in boron nitride sheets to study magnetism and stress under extreme pressure.

Tornadoes on the outer edges of a typhoon's spiral rain bands are a severe convective weather phenomenon that occurs on the ...