Welcome to this week’s installment of “Don’t Mess with Geophysics.” Last week, we learned about the possible destabilization of the Totten Glacier of East Antarctica, which could unleash ...

As warm air rises and cold air sinks it forms three atmospheric circulation cells north of the equator and three to the south. These circulation cells move over land and sea to redistribute the ...

Climate models show the absence of a global atmospheric circulation pattern which bolsters ... Climate change further complicates the process. "The real challenge is we have to be dealing with ...

This process maintains the global energy balance. Scientists have studied atmospheric circulation and have agreed on a simplified model to explain the redistribution of energy from areas of ...

The Walker circulation ... to global warming are rather surprising. Contrary to scientists' expectations, the Pacific Walker ...

A new comparison of spacecraft data with computer models explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a layer of ozone above the planet’s southern winter pole. Ozone (O3) is a form of ...

It may lead to extreme weather events across the globe due to its ability to change global atmospheric circulation. Thus, determining how ENSO responds to greenhouse warming is crucial in climate ...

The global atmospheric circulation is characterized by air slowly rising in the tropics into the upper atmosphere and sinking at higher latitudes. While this circulation is so slow that a blob of ...

7. For instance, global surface temperatures are expected to keep rising because of climate change. In the tropics, ocean warming patterns determine rainfall change by driving atmospheric circulation ...

Nonetheless, the new research finds that global warming does indeed seem to be slowing down the circulation. And while hardly catastrophic, that can’t be good news. Among the very real effects ...