Climate change is making rainfall harder to predict, as shifting wind patterns challenge climate models and increase ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind ...

Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice sheets and rising sea levels, during the Glacial–Holocene transition. This ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

It makes sense that atmospheric rivers would flood West Coast headlines as well as its coastlines. Eighty percent of all West Coast flood damage is attributable to these immense highways of water ...

The mechanisms by which African topographic changes influence South Asian precipitation. view more . Credit: Mingyu Zeng. The ...