El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take in over 90% of this heat, acting as a massive buffer against global ...

A new study of satellite imagery and high-resolution climate model data upends previous assumptions and provides insight about how the atmosphere and ocean weather patterns interact. The new ...

How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans and ecosystems to adjust. A slower increase gives humans time to move away ...

With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, a slower circulation should also dredge up less carbon from the deep ocean that ...

A team of researchers reconstructed this critical ocean circulation system — called ... “Without that transport of heat from the atmosphere and the ocean, the band of hospitable latitudes ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

Could ocean currents ensure that global warming continues even after we have reached carbon-neutrality?  One of the concepts ...

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that's crucial for regulating the world's weather and ecosystems might be more stable ...

As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is gradually rising, and with it, the planet's average temperature. How ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a system of ocean currents that ... the "sea-air heat flux," which simulates the exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere. Should the ...