Tropical Storm Francine's path toward the Louisiana coast will bring it over warm Gulf of Mexico waters, typically a key factor for turning a modest storm into a powerful hurricane. But another factor ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...