deterministic lens on increased population means greater degradation of natural resources Note: CO2 emissions associated with food travel are used as a metric to evaluate our food production system a ...

temperatures in the western Pacific, around Indonesia and Australia, may be hindering the atmosphere from getting into sync with the ocean and playing its typical part in the development of El Niño. T ...

circulation: stronger trade winds, stronger westerly (west-to-east) winds high up in the atmosphere, more rain and clouds than average over the far western Pacific, and drier conditions over the east/ ...

the last month. Remember, El Niño is an ocean-atmospheric phenomenon. During El Niño, the atmosphere over the tropics—the Walker Circulation—gets all jumbled up. The result in the Pacific is weakened ...

The top two meters of ocean water contain about as much heat as the entire column of atmosphere above them. The ocean's tremendous ability to store and release heat over long periods of time gives the ...

for severe weather events. Meteorologists and scientists use advanced tools to research the atmosphere. These tools include computer models, radar, and satellites. Comments from expert scientist: Clea ...

optimized for re-use at multiple sizes in multiple platforms: on the web, TV, or in print. In recent months we've made a major addition to Data Snapshots: monthly maps of projected U. S. temperatures ...

from below, which happens a lot in the Northern Hemisphere. Below the stratosphere, the atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere is flowing over land surfaces with rugged topography. Like boulders in a r ...

the difference from average humidity (left) and vertical air motion (right) for a slab of the atmosphere between 400 and 600 millibars of pressure (roughly 13,000 and 23,000 feet altitude). Air across ...

collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space. URL to Main Site for Report :. Issuing Agencies :. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Soc ...