As climate change advances, the ocean's overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the ...

The weather over the North Atlantic affects hundreds of millions of people. From winter storms over Europe to cold spells in eastern North America, many of these impacts are shaped by large-scale ...

The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the ...

Scientists may have to rethink the relationship between the ocean's circulation and its long-term capacity to store carbon, new research suggests. As the ocean gets weaker, it could release more ...

According to the scientific consensus, tropical convection must decrease with global warming. This decrease is manifested by a decrease of the mass transported in the upward branch of the atmospheric ...

As climate change advances, the ocean’s overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the ...

As global warming intensifies, extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and severe worldwide, and are increasingly occurring alongside air pollution to form compound heatwave–air pollution ...

A weakening Atlantic Ocean current could make future atmospheric rivers in California wetter, increasing flood risks. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of currents ...

What is a polar vortex? Learn how it differs from the jet stream, when it can bring Arctic cold to the U.S., and what NOAA forecasts can tell you.