Article: The Cloud Catchers.

At the Storm Peak Laboratory in Colorado, Scientists Literally Live and Work in the clouds.

My face is stung by wind-whipped snow, and my parka turns white from a growing layer of freezing cloud droplets. I squint against the wind and cold as I attach an instrument that looks like a tennis racket to the rooftop railing of the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL) high atop Mount Werner in the northern Colorado Rockies. Nearby, my student carefully attaches plastic bags to a mortarlike instrument while the wind tries to snatch them. The racket collects cloud droplets and the mortar collects snow crystals from the thick cloud that envelops the lab.

Meanwhile, we ...

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