In this case, I am talking about atmospheric pressure. Pressure is not something we ordinarily dwell on before or during a flight. But if you fly in a location where the mountain peaks are plentiful, ...

Paris Alston: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. When trying to make sense of the weather and meteorological patterns, there are a lot of helpful tools out there. One of them is isobars, the curved lines ...

An e-mail from Juan asks why barometer readings are often referenced as sea-level pressure. Pressure measurements are essential for the plotting of isobars (lines of equal pressure) over the Earth, ...

David Legates was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The rise in mean global sea levels has been ongoing since the demise of the last Ice Age, ...

Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies ...

An upper air cyclonic circulation persists over the central parts of the Strait of Malacca, extending up to 5.8 km above mean sea level. Under its influence, a low-pressure area is expected to form ...

The well-marked low-pressure area that lay over the Strait of Malacca and adjoining south Andaman Sea on Monday has moved to Malaysia and the adjoining Strait of Malacca as of 0830 hours on Tuesday, ...