problems attributed to the rapid accumulation of human-emitted carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Feely didn't expect that ocean acidification would show up in his own backyard so soon. Now he fears it ...

just an end result, though: they mix warmer water in to the cold tongue and interact with the atmosphere, affecting winds and surface pressure. ENSO influences the development of the waves (by affecti ...

weather system passes, the climate factors that favor an active hurricane season are still there in the background. To picture this, I envision a pot of potatoes boiling over on the stove: if you blow ...

early last month, is still present. El Niño is a coupled system, meaning the ocean and atmosphere both exhibit characteristic changes. The atmospheric half of El Niño is harder to detect this month; m ...

meaning it requires both the Niño3.4 region to be more than 0.5°C above average and for the atmosphere to respond to those warmer-than-average waters. When both conditions are met, and expected to con ...

resulted in many deaths during religious festivities in Saudi Arabia. Even though our earth- atmosphere system is coming out of the recent El Niño and is currently neutral and probably transitioning in ...

an ocean-atmospheric interaction. ENSO is no one-man act. If the ocean is Abbott, then the atmosphere is Costello; the ocean…. Laverne, the atmosphere…. Shirley; the ocean…. Kanye, the atmosphere…. Ki ...

time making successful forecasts during the spring as well. Also, El Niño events typically peak in the early winter, which is still six months away. These factors combine to make it difficult to predi ...

for the start of summer for most of the country, with wetter than average conditions also favored in the northeastern United States. These maps use colors to show where May, June, and July temperature ...

from the Arctic, documenting changes in the physical environment—including sea ice, the atmosphere, snow, the Greenland Ice Sheet, and carbon stored and released by permafrost—and the impacts on peopl ...