Every few days now, a giant rocket blasts a fiery trail through the atmosphere, lofting satellites into orbit, carrying out ...

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than ...

3- Latitudinal features: Ferrel cell Ferrel cell, atmospheric circulation [Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]model of the mid-latitude segment of Earth’s wind circulation, proposed by ...

A new study in Nature has revealed that the atmospheric component of this system -- called the Pacific Walker Circulation -- has changed its behavior over the industrial era in ways that weren't ...

An atmospheric river was linked to significant ... to the mid-latitudes but is instead being shunted through Joaquin's circulation before arriving in the Southeast. The key thing is that this ...

JOHN WISE. Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 4, 1860. This article was originally published with the title "Atmospheric Circulation and Aepial Navigation" in Scientific American 3, 25new, 386 (December 1860 ...

Atmospheric rivers exist to take moisture ... systems that form just far enough south that their counter-clockwise circulation scoops up water vapor from the tropics and transports it northward.

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 ...

Warmer air can also hold more water vapor. The circulation of the atmosphere will pull streams of moisture away from the equator forming “atmospheric rivers.” These “rivers” of moisture ...

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Nino – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Nina, is on the way. Whether that’s a relief or not ...

A new study in Nature has revealed that the atmospheric component of this system — called the Pacific Walker Circulation — has changed its behavior over the industrial era in ways that weren ...