States is left drier than average as the jet stream—area of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that serves as a storm highway—is located farther to the north than usual. These conditions were ge ...

has shown signs of rebounding. Based on these latest indicators from the tropical ocean and atmosphere, NOAA forecasters have declared that El Niño has ended and neutral conditions have returned. Does ...

feedbacks describe the reinforcing interactions (positive feedbacks) between the ocean and atmosphere that cause El Niño and La Niña to grow: changes in the tropical Pacific ocean temperatures cause c ...

source for confusion: Black carbon isn't a greenhouse gas, but the soot particles warm the atmosphere by absorbing heat and reducing albedo when deposited on ice and snow. Introduction of the term alb ...

have enough ingredients to make one batch of cookies, and all is well, just like normally the atmosphere provides enough ingredients to cause rain and moves on. This time though, the atmosphere create ...

cool. In early June 2010, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reported that the ocean and atmosphere conditions across the Pacific were favorable for the development of a La Niña episode. By early August ...

is consistent with a warming-induced expansion of the general circulation of the tropical atmosphere. The region's average air motion is a cycle in which warm, humid air rises within ever-present thun ...

for the development of rain storms, while to the west and northeast have been ridges of high atmosphere pressure. These high pressures have not only helped caused sunny skies and hotter temperatures, ...

melt event was smaller still. Likewise, the overall mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2022 was roughly 115 gigatons less than the average mass loss of 261 ± 11 gigatons recorded over 2022-2022 ...

s "rules" (the equations of physics and thermodynamics that govern how the ocean, land, and atmosphere interact in the virtual world) and which kinds of input data are most important for snowpack pred ...