The majority of our weather occurs here. The layer of the atmosphere that lies between 6 and 31 miles above the surface is known as the stratosphere. The polar vortex is within the stratosphere.

Their goal is twofold: Get a baseline measurement of what the earth’s stratosphere looks like, and see how natural events such as volcanic eruptions and wildfires can change it. With that data ...

The eruption was one of the most powerful of the 19th century, spewing so much sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere that annual average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by about one ...

Tonight will be dry and cold with clear skies throughout. A few patches of mist and fog may develop in places during the early hours. Saturday Tomorrow will have a dry start with sunny spells ...

Standing 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) tall and roughly the size of a single-door refrigerator, the caesium atomic fountain clock can be loaded onto a military truck and, after enduring long-distance ...

creating particles in the stratosphere. Those bright particles remained above the clouds and didn’t get washed from the sky by rain; they settled only after several years. Climatologists predicted ...