Dew accumulation on optical surfaces of professional telescopes degrades performance and necessitates difficult, costly cleaning. Heating large telescope mirrors to prevent dew formation is ...

We hear dew point mentioned in forecasts and see it on weather apps all the time, but we don't hear too much about the frost point. Both are important to consider for day to day life, as well as, the ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile, is among the least habitable environments on the planet largely because of its extreme aridity; nevertheless, ecosystems continue to function in many locations there, at ...

In autumn, it's not uncommon to find fields and gardens covered with a fine layer of water droplets in the morning: this is dew. But why does dew seem more frequent during this time of year? Dew forms ...

A grooved surface that collects water by encouraging large dew droplets to form rapidly and then trickle away has been created by Pierre-Brice Bintein and colleagues at the Superior School of ...

Residents of Islamabad have observed a subtle yet telling change in the capital's winter mornings this year — less frequent dew formation and reduced visibility, suggesting gradual but persistent ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Now that the National Ecological Observatory Network is operational, the continental-sized network funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by Battelle can ...

Dew formation has the potential to modulate the spatial and temporal variations of isotopic contents of atmospheric water vapor, oxygen and carbon dioxide. The goal of this paper is to improve our ...