The Earth is warming more rapidly than before, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense. While ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Using the city of Lahore, Pakistan, as a detailed case study, the research offers broader insights into why smog remains so persistent in densely populated cities with high transport demand and ...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land. Atmospheric rivers generally form in tropical regions, where warm temperatures can ...

The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), long considered the crown jewel in the U.S.’s earth science infrastructure. Scientists who study climate, ...

The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program joins forces with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather events “We know that better measurements of atmospheric rivers ...

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will take flight in January. By Eric Niiler Reporting from the annual meeting of ...

As a strong atmospheric river targets the Pacific Northwest, these questions are top of mind, according to the National Weather Service. Some areas have already received upwards or 7 or 8 inches of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The wet and windy weather felt across the Pacific Northwest is thanks to a long band of water vapor stretching across the Pacific Ocean. An atmospheric river continues to ...

A strong-to-extreme atmospheric river will stretch 7,000 miles from the Philippines to the Pacific Northwest this week, bringing significant rainfall, high-elevation snow and strong winds to ...