oceanic conditions. Wind shear (changing of wind speed and/or direction with height in the atmosphere) was weak enough to not pose a challenge to the storm's organization, while sea surface temperatur ...

air moves, how water behaves, how radiation transports energy. They then break the earth's atmosphere down into piecesâcellsâand then compute what happens in each cell based on these physical theories ...

example, according to other experts who contributed to the 2020 Arctic Report Card, the increase in primary productivity has contributed to increases in the bowhead whale population in the Pacific Arc ...

initial fire without much smoke yet to mask the terrain. It started between two small drainages in area of homogenous mesic tundra. The second one [acquired by a commercial satellite company and publi ...

toward Juneau, Alaska, between August 4 and August 6, 2023. Significant flooding was reported in areas along the river that have not seen flooding from these types of events in the past, the National ...

The open water will keep the surface temperatures essentially at the freezing point and the atmosphere above not much cooler." Near-freezing might not sound warm, but for the Arctic in the dead of win ...

scientists estimate the ocean absorbs more than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases. When analyzing temperature patterns at different depths of the ocean, scien ...

between forest fires and El Niño/La Niña exists because of "teleconnections" in the atmosphere that emanate from the tropical Pacific. In an earlier blog post, Mike Halpert explained how El Niño telec ...

across much of northern Canada, parts of the northeastern contiguous U. S., north of the equator in South America and Africa, and south-central Asia. The unusually warm temperatures contributed to the ...

north, at 50 degrees north latitude. How did it get so hot? As with most questions about the atmosphere, there are multiple answers. The most direct cause of the blistering heat was a high-pressure sy ...