The events that make winter memorable, such as big snow storms, depend on conditions in the atmosphere which are just not predictable on time scales beyond a week or two. We routinely issue sub-season ...

consistent with the warm phase of a natural climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere known as El Niño. A similar contrast shows up in the North Pacific: warm off the west coast of ...

black carbon is a particle, rather than a gas, it has a relatively short lifespan in the atmosphere; thus, reducing the amount of black carbon that people produce can have immediate impacts. Comments ...

temperature of the whole stovetop is warmer. But the warm footprint also adds heat to the atmosphere, just like the warm burner heats the air just above it. The atmosphere carries this along, reinforc ...

methane emission in response to Arctic warming increases emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and increases climate warming at the global scale—a decrease in climate resilience at the glob ...

vortex weakens when large-scale atmospheric waves (e.g., 800 miles across) from the lower atmosphere travel up into the winter stratosphere. When these waves break—yes, even atmospheric waves break—th ...

e.g., news clips, expert interviews, text, maps) through a jigsaw activity. The lesson culminates in a writing activity in which students design and present their local wildfire risk mitigation strate ...

video is provided that discusses how Aquarius helps climate modelers to understand the ocean- atmosphere processes that are changing Earth's climate. A transcript is provided as well. Ocean circulation ...

information and resources are provided. Because links to online resources are also provided in the student handouts, prep time on the teacher's part should be minimal. This lesson takes 155 minutes. ...

matters. Observing temperature patterns in the lower stratosphere—second major layer of the atmosphere—gives scientists clues about our planet's changing climate. Short-term spikes in stratospheric te ...