In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

The polar vortex is Earth's frozen guardian—but that guardian is starting to fail. This video dives into the science behind ...

A new analysis of historical jet stream behavior reveals that increases in jet stream waviness accounted for 55-71% of winter ...

In November 1965 a Von Karman vortex street occurred at the Ferrybridge 3 coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire, England. There was a group of eight cooling towers, each over 300 feet tall.