Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Weather, climate and hydrometeorology forecasts require accurate surface–atmosphere coupled modeling. This requires the use ...

When the Soviet 50-megaton test-bomb exploded on Novaya Zemlya last October, it set the earth’s whole atmosphere ... waves for several more days. In 1883 the explosion of the Indonesian volcano ...

Travelling at more than 1,000 km/hour, two atmospheric pressure waves from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcanic eruption traveled completely around the world, spreading huge sonic wave sounds ...

It noted that disturbances in the atmosphere were detected after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano around 1 p.m. on Jan. 15. The resulting air pressure waves reached near ...