Additionally, busy seasons also have lowered surface pressure and a more moist, unstable atmosphere conducive for thunderstorm development; quiet years display higher pressures and a drier, more stabl ...

those experiments, however, there are things we can say. We know that a warming world's atmosphere can "hold" more water in it, which can lead to more frequent and heavier rainfall events. And we know ...

severe thunderstorms that can form tornadoes are relatively straight forward:. 1. an unstable atmosphere, meaning that once air begins to rise, it does so easily,. 2. sufficient moisture, which helps ...

strength. (3) The squishiness of rankings. Remember, El Niño is based on both the ocean and atmosphere. There are many different data sets and methods to compare and measure strength. Some use sea sur ...

melt, changes in ice crystal size as conditions warm, and increases in dust and soot from the atmosphere (6). The elevation at which winter snow survives the summer is getting higher (3). Between 2005 ...

In many watersheds in the western United States, more water is stored in the mountain snowpack than in the region's human-built reservoirs. As climate has warmed, spring snowpack across the American W ...

on the tropics, conditions transitioned to El Niño in June 2023. The warmth shows up first in the far eastern tropical Pacific and steadily moves westward to engulf the Galápagos Islands and overtake ...

of the year. (Side lesson: there are a lot of complicated dynamics between the ocean and the atmosphere, but to simplify here, a strong and long-lived El Niño exposes a lot of warm water to the atmosp ...

threatens carbon sequestration by promoting processes that release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. * Home. Average amount of carbon stored in all terrestrial ecosystems in the conterminous United St ...

mid-1960s through the late 1980s. Given that Barrow has experienced extended warm or cold periods in the past, what's so unusual about the recent string of warm Octobers? When we say warm Octobers wer ...