Hurricane Melissa was a devastating category 5 storm that made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest systems on record ...
When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.
Wingtip vortices, a form of wake turbulence, are rapidly rotating air generated by an airplane's wings whenever they produce lift, posing a significant and often unseen hazard, especially from heavy ...
While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent flows remains an ...
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...
This striking satellite photo shows multiple examples of a rare meteorological phenomenon, known as "von Kármán vortices," swirling off at least six different islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Very ...
Non-Abelian vortices represent a fascinating class of topological defects arising in gauge theories that exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking. These vortices differ markedly from their Abelian ...
The University of Bristol is joining an Australian partnership between Skyportz and Swinburne University to research vertipad ...
When people want to talk about something unpleasant, they often invent nicer-sounding phrases to disguise what's really going on. "Wake turbulence" is the kind of term that can bring to mind vague, ...