Why Does the Changma Front Stall Over Korea for Weeks?
A tug-of-war of stalemate — how the Okhotsk and North Pacific air masses lock the Changma front in place over the Korean Peninsula
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A Cloud Weighs as Much as 100 Elephants, Yet It Doesn’t Fall — The Physics Hidden in a Single Droplet
A single fair-weather cumulus cloud weighs about 500 tonnes — as much as 100 elephants. So why doesn’t it fall? We look at the terminal… Read More »A Cloud Weighs as Much as 100 Elephants, Yet It Doesn’t Fall — The Physics Hidden in a Single Droplet
A Rainbow Isn’t a Semicircle — It’s a Circle: The 42° Geometry Drawn by a Single Raindrop
Why does a rainbow always appear at 42°, why is it actually a full circle rather than a semicircle, and why does everyone see their… Read More »A Rainbow Isn’t a Semicircle — It’s a Circle: The 42° Geometry Drawn by a Single Raindrop
The Two Faces of a Typhoon: Both Disaster and a Giant Heat Engine
A typhoon takes lives with storm surge and wind — and is, at the same time, a giant Carnot-style heat engine that turns the warm… Read More »The Two Faces of a Typhoon: Both Disaster and a Giant Heat Engine
How Saharan Dust Delivers Phosphorus to the Amazon: The Earth’s Design That Links Continents
Each year, dust from the Sahara crosses the Atlantic and delivers phosphorus to the Amazon rainforest. By NASA satellite measurements, the amount is comparable to… Read More »How Saharan Dust Delivers Phosphorus to the Amazon: The Earth’s Design That Links Continents
Aurora: The Curtain of Light the Solar Wind Paints Across the Sky
The light of an aurora is, in fact, a picture drawn by particles that traveled some 150 million km from the Sun to meet Earth’s… Read More »Aurora: The Curtain of Light the Solar Wind Paints Across the Sky