s oceans basins. Rossby waves emerge in any rotating fluid, including both the ocean and the atmosphere (which behaves a lot like a fluid). In the ocean, Rossby waves can be triggered by changes in wi ...

partial pressure in the water rises. Until the excess carbon dioxide is able to escape to the atmosphere, the rising pressure drives chemical reactions that increase the water's acidity. The pattern r ...

breaking. One marker used to determine the strength of a high pressure is the height in the atmosphere at which a pressure reading of 500 millibars (mb) would be observed. (At sea level, pressure is a ...

blanket" analogy is used to explain how additional greenhouse gases are "thickening" the atmosphere. While this analogy works, the narrator's body language during this section could create a misconcep ...

the number of days with extremely warm daytime high temperatures has increased. This increase in extremely hot days is contributing to observed trends in increasing forest fire danger across many part ...

a study that looked at how snowfall changes globally as the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is doubled, the average amount of snow across the eastern United States will decline (Kapnick and ...

with ENSO, are stealing some of the heat from the surface layers, thereby depriving the atmosphere of the warmth from the ocean surface. Changes in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans have been implicated ...

temperature conditions on Earth will be given different levels of carbon released into the atmosphere. Shows the complexities of climate change and the usefulness and limitations of modeling. The teac ...

model world, we can run an experiment that does not have the external forcing—for example, an atmosphere with no increases in greenhouse gases—and a second experiment that DOES have the external influ ...

the water column, it's a normal process in geochemistry. As we add more and more CO2 from the atmosphere to the oceans, this corrosive water is getting closer and closer to the surface, where it comes ...