Weather

Dust in the cloudsCirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles, study finds.

Slideshow: Snow daysMembers of the MIT community revel in a wintry wonderland.

New method could help communities plan for climate riskMIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning.

Climate change: a developing challenge for poor nationsMIT and U.N. researchers team up to tackle some of the heftiest climate change challenges developing countries will face as they confront an uncertain future.

When it rains, it poursStudy estimates rate of intensification of extreme tropical rainfall with global warming.

The economic cost of increased temperaturesStudy: Warming episodes hurt poor countries and limit long-term growth.

Water world'Weather in a tank' demonstration helps students grasp fluid dynamics.

A climate window in the Southern OceanAn updated circulation model reveals the Southern Ocean as a powerful influence on climate change.

Wind, war and weathermenHow a Swedish bon vivant let MIT introduce modern meteorology to America — just in time to help the Allies win World War II.

When the butterfly effect took flight

Study sees changing intensity of storms from warmingHemispheres will respond to climate change differently, with weaker summer storms in the North, study suggests.

More hurricanes in greener seas?Research suggests ocean color is linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclones

The aerosols conundrumResearch shows that aerosols not only cool, but also heat the planet — a finding that may cloud the validity of climate-change models.

3 Questions: John Marshall on the Gulf of Mexico oil spillAn MIT oceanographer discusses why ‘we have never had a spill like this’ — and what that means for cleanup efforts.

Weather in a TankA curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve weather and climate education