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Atmospheric Science

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Nov-2025 22:11 ET (20-Nov-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

19-Nov-2025

Deadly, record-breaking heatwaves will persist for 1,000 years, even under net zero

University of Melbourne
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Deadly hotter and longer heatwaves, which worsen in severity the longer it takes to reach net zero carbon emissions, will become the norm predicts new climate research.

Funder: Australian Research Council

19-Nov-2025

Trapping particles to explain lightning

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging micron-sized particles with lasers, researchers can now observe their charging and discharging dynamics over time. This method, published in Physical Review Letters, could provide key insights into what sparks lightning.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: H2020 European Research Council

18-Nov-2025

Ancient bogs reveal 15,000-year climate secret, say scientists

University of Southampton
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sudden shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago - after the last Ice Age - triggered a massive growth of peatland swamps.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

18-Nov-2025

Team studies beryllium-7 variations over Antarctic regions of the Southern Ocean

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Japanese research team has studied the variations in beryllium-7 concentrations in the surface air over the Antarctic regions of Southern Ocean. Beryllium-7 is a radioactive isotope of beryllium produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. The team explored, over space and time, how the beryllium-7 is transported from the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface. Their goal was to better understand the mechanisms of atmospheric mixing on Earth.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Funder: The European Union’s FP7 program (NMDB project), National Institute of Polar Research(NIPR), Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) as part of Science Project

18-Nov-2025

Weather behind past heat waves could return far deadlier

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Weather patterns that produced five severe heat waves in Europe over the past 30 years could kill thousands more people if repeated in today’s hotter global climate, a new study finds. Rapid acceleration of efforts to adapt to greater extremes could save lives.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Stanford University

17-Nov-2025

Ancient sediments reveal Earth’s hidden wildfire past

Heriot-Watt University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s turbulent Early Triassic epoch, about 250 million years ago.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation

17-Nov-2025

New satellite study reveals a widespread transition zone in the sky, challenging climate models

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has shed light on a previously overlooked but common atmospheric phenomenon: the transition zone (TZ) where clouds and aerosols blend together, making it difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences