More than 500 scientists will travel to Antarctica to study "super-cooled" clouds that could hold secrets to predicting global weather and climate forecasts. The project, involving Australian and United States researchers, will gather data on super-cooled cloud formations, which are clouds that remain as liquid water well below freezing. The atmospheric scientists will use ships, aircraft and satellites to the study super-cooled Southern Ocean clouds as part of the Australian Antarctic Division voyage over Summer. Australian Antarctic Division atmospheric scientist Simon Alexander said the understudied clouds often occurred above the Southern Ocean and around Antarctica, but little was known about them. In the air, a United States research aircraft would collect information on the thermodynamic and physical properties above, below and within clouds, the AAD said.

Source: Huffington Post October 28, 2017 23:37 UTC