Air samples from NOAA's Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii provide important greenhouse gas data for climate scientists around the world. (NOAA) Carbon dioxide levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa ...

New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars’ atmosphere; knowing when and where to ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud ...

The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere. They were started by C. David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in ...

If you’ve been following space news recently, you’ve probably heard about Mars Sample Return — NASA’s ambitious plan to collect samples of Martian rocks and bring them back to Earth for study. That ...

The RAAVEN is a small fixed-wing UAS designed for atmospheric sampling and profiling in the lower atmosphere. The RAAVEN, developed by CU Boulder’s IRISS and Ritewing RC Groups, collects thermodynamic ...

UPTON, NY - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new tool for quantitatively measuring elusive atmospheric chemicals that play a key role in ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, so engineers want atmospheric knowledge of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, their ...