But the Pacific is the world's biggest ocean, and when its climate teeters, the entire atmosphere can lose its balance. In the United States, La Niña's strongest and most consistent influence is a dri ...

not originate from the CO2, but from sunlight absorbed by Earth and reflected back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation. Passed initial science review - expert science review pending. Video does ...

was able to transition into a hurricane due to colder-than-average temperatures in the upper atmosphere, which compensated for the not-so-warm ocean temperatures underneath. The difference between the ...

high pressure to the east-northeast of the hurricane and an area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere to the north of the storm. When all of these ingredients are in place, the atmosphere to the no ...

to persist. Over Anchorage, the average height of the 500mb pressure level in the atmosphere set a July record, and tied the July record in Fairbanks, according to Rick Thoman of Alaska Center for Cli ...

dioxide reach the stratosphere. The stratosphere is a generally stable layer of earth's atmosphere, which allows gases to linger. In contrast, the lowest level of the atmosphere—the troposphere—is muc ...

and the storm that battered Hawaii, the jet stream—an area seven to eight miles in the atmosphere with fast moving winds that serves as a storm highway—went from blowing in a relatively straight west- ...

from expert scientist: Although the students learn that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises whenever emissions are greater than zero, they don't learn about the concept of residence t ...

But the 2022-23 La Niña was weak, and by the end of the year, this area of the country was also in a precipitation deficit. Last year when the pattern switched to El Niño, the precipitation deficits c ...

on the top of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, documented the dramatic rise in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, resulting in the oft-referenced Keeling Curve. Comments from expert scientist: Scientific streng ...