The weather over the North Atlantic affects hundreds of millions of people. From winter storms over Europe to cold spells in eastern North America, many of these impacts are shaped by large-scale ...

Atmospheric circulation governs weather and climate, but it also carries angular momentum. When winds shift or mass ...

As climate change advances, the ocean's overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the ...

The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the ...

This is Kansoku-san.Last time, we identified the components of the force that drives vortices (Coriolis force, pressure gradient force, and centrifugal force). This time, we will use these components ...

Scientists may have to rethink the relationship between the ocean's circulation and its long-term capacity to store carbon, new research suggests. As the ocean gets weaker, it could release more ...

As climate change advances, the ocean’s overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the ...

As global warming intensifies, extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and severe worldwide, and are increasingly occurring alongside air pollution to form compound heatwave–air pollution ...

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and ...

A weakening Atlantic Ocean current could make future atmospheric rivers in California wetter, increasing flood risks. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of currents ...