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exploreYOUR WORLDFollow your curiosity.

A WORLD ABOVE YOUR HEAD

Atmosphere
& Weather

The sky is full of clues. Start with a curtain of light above a northern lake.

Follow solar-wind energy into the northern lights, explore the colours of sunlight, and discover how a changing Pacific Ocean can influence weather thousands of kilometres away.

Illustrative artwork for Atmosphere & Weather

FOUR WAYS TO FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY

Choose a question.
See where it takes you.

INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

The language of light

Choose an emission, brighten the imagined sky, and send a pulse of energy. Discover the connection between colour, wavelength and photon energy.

Explore at your own paceScience included
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Illustrative sunlight along Earth’s atmosphere

NEW INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

Sunset Lab

Lower the Sun, change the amount of air and haze, and watch scattering reshape the sky and the sunlight that reaches you.

Try a guided questionScience included
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A scientific schematic of the solar wind flowing around Earth’s compressed magnetic field and extended tail
The Sun–Earth connection · schematic field geometry

AURORA JOURNEY

From Sun to sky.

Follow the energy behind the northern lights. Turn the solar wind’s magnetic field, send an electron toward Earth, and discover what makes the atmosphere glow.

Particles, fields & lightScience included
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A calculated Pacific temperature section with a sloping thermocline, trade winds and tropical rain
A conceptual ocean–atmosphere model

THE PACIFIC CONNECTION

An ocean moves.
The weather follows.

Change the trade winds, follow El Niño and La Niña below the surface, and discover how the tropical Pacific changes the odds of weather far away.

Oceans, feedback & weatherReal Saskatoon observations
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Ideas you’ll explore

Follow your curiosity a little further.

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