The main cause is water vapor, which fuels explosive deep convection in the atmosphere. The more convection, the greater the charge separation and the more cloud-to-ground strikes. Today's climate ...

Scientists have long known that atmospheric convection in the form of hurricanes and tropical ocean thunderstorms tends to occur when sea surface temperature rises above a threshold. The critical ...

Crucially, this added heat rises in a process called convection, similar to how boiling water propels rice around a pot. And this atmospheric convection can disrupt the rapidly flowing jet stream.

The first phase is inhibition of convection by the water-loading effect and its eventual release. We describe the thermodynamic properties of Saturn’s atmosphere and identify the same critical ...

"For the first time we can see the chemical cake while it's rising in the oven, instead of just the starting ingredients of ...