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2 unusual facts about atmospheric physics


Atmospheric physics

RADAR, LIDAR, and SODAR are examples of active remote sensing techniques used in atmospheric physics where the time delay between emission and return is measured, establishing the location, height, speed and direction of an object.

The US National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center also carries out studies of the high atmosphere.


Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Ken Young (born November 9, 1941) of Petrolia, California is a retired professor of atmospheric physics and former American record-holder in the indoor marathon who currently holds two of the top 10 marks in the event.

Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil

Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil is a well-known academic and a highly cited atmospheric physicist and environmental scientist.


see also

André Berger

He became known in 1977 for his paper in Nature and later in the Journal of Atmospheric Physics (1978) delivering all the spectral components of the long term variations of eccentricity, obliquity (axial tilt) and climatic precession.

Araya Desta

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, in 1980, and a master’s degree in atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1985.

Georgy Grechko

He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture on atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Journal for Geoclimatic Studies

The spurious study, ostensibly authored by Daniel Klein and Mandeep J. Gupta of the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, and Philip Cooper and Arne FR Jansson at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Atmospheric Physics, claimed that global warming was not human caused, but the work of carbon-dioxide emitting bacteria based on the ocean floor.