Image Gallery

Earth as a System

Air Masses	Carbon Cycle Diagram	Carbon Cycle Diagram from NASA	Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE
Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE with numbers	Carbon Cycle Diagram from the IPCC	Earth	Global Atmospheric Circulation
Heat Transfer Diagram	Map of Ocean Circulation	Radiation Budget Diagram for Earth's Atmosphere	The Water Cycle

How Weather Works

Air Masses	Cold Front	Dropsonde in Flight	Foggy Weather
Heat Transfer Diagram	High and Low Pressure Systems	How Clouds Form	Occluded Front
Rainbows	Sonde and Dropsonde Photos	Stationary Front	Warm Front
Weather Balloon Photos

Clouds

Altocumulus clouds	Cirrocumulus clouds	Cirrostratus clouds	Cirrus Clouds
Cloud Types Diagram	Contrails	Cumulonimbus clouds	Cumulus clouds
How Clouds Form	Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds	Lenticular Clouds	Mammatus Clouds
Nimbostratus clouds	Nimbus Munnekeholm by Berndnaut Smilde	Noctilucent Clouds	Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Stratocumulus clouds	Stratus clouds

Layers of the Atmosphere

Atmosphere of Jupiter in December 2000	Aurora from International Space Station on July 25, 2010	Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere Diagram	Diagram of Atmosphere Layers
Dropsonde in Flight	Earth's Atmospheric Composition Diagram	Heat Transfer Diagram	Ionosphere Diagram - Regions & Altitude
Mesosphere diagram	Sonde and Dropsonde Photos	Stratosphere Diagram	Troposphere Diagram
Weather Balloon Photos

Storms and Other Weather

Blowing snow during a blizzard reduces visibility.	How Hurricanes Form	How Tornadoes Form	Hurricane
Hurricane Damage	Ice Storm	Lightning	Snowflake
Snowstorm	Storm Front Over Lake Superior	Supercell Thunderstorm	Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm Formation	Tornado in Wyoming (U.S.) on June 5, 2009	Wind

How Climate Works

Carbon Cycle Diagram

Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE

Radiation Budget Diagram for Earth's Atmosphere

The Year Without a Summer

Air Quality

Carbon Dioxide molecule	Carbon Monoxide molecule	Earth's Atmospheric Composition Diagram	Methane molecule
Nitric Oxide molecule	Nitrogen Dioxide molecule	Nitrogen molecule	Oxygen molecule
Ozone molecule	Propane molecule - Hydrocarbon example	Sizes of Aerosols, Raindrop and Cloud Droplets

Sun and Space Weather

Compare Sun Images - Visible Light and Ultraviolet	Coronal Holes in Ultraviolet Solar Image - January 2011	Coronal Loops - UV image from TRACE - November 1999	Coronal Mass Ejection January 2002
Earth and Sun	Earth's Atmosphere from ISS	Earth's Dipole Magnetic Field	Earth's Magnetosphere
Graph of Sunspot Counts	Photosphere - Sunspots and Granulation	Red Light (H-alpha) View of the Sun - July 18, 2000	Regions of the Sun
Solar Active Regions - Sunspots and UV Image	Solar Chromosphere Eclipse Photo	Solar Corona - Eclipse and UV Images	Solar Eclipse 1991 from Hawaii
Solar Filament in H-alpha Light in July 2000	Solar Flare November 2003	Sun with Sunspots - March 29, 2001	Sun with Sunspots - Solar Max 2001 and Solar Min 2005
Sun's Atmosphere - Corona and Chromosphere	Sun's Corona at Solar Min & Solar Max	Sun's Spectrum	Sunspots
Sunspots	The Sun in Ultraviolet Light	Ultraviolet Sun with Coronal Loops - April 2012

Impacts of Climate Change

Cracks in Dry Mud	Drought in the central United States	Sea Level Change in Bangladesh	Where are the farms in the United States?
Where does carbon dioxide go?	Which areas are projected to get drier?

How We Study Climate

Just Add Humans: How Models Simulate 20th Century Climate With (top) and Without (bottom) the Impacts of Humans

Tree Rings

How Climate Changes

What Does it Mean to Change the Mean?