Oceans play a crucial role ... the atmosphere would otherwise heat up. This natural process underscores the importance of oceans in maintaining the delicate balance of our planet's climate.

A recent study published in Geophysical Research Lettersreveals how shifts in water density in the subpolar North Atlantic ...

She is part of an international project called CLOUD, wherein she and fellow atmospheric scientists study how clouds form and the role they play in the climate. A recent study from the team ...

How do the oceans remove CO 2 from the atmosphere? The oceans are a major component of the climate system. They have played the principal role in the climatic balance that the planet has experienced ...

By the 1970s, researchers were measuring those emissions in the atmosphere ... role of carbon dioxide emissions in warming the Earth. “Any politician today that denies the reality of climate ...

In its 2021 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that: “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere ... for the role of basic science in renewable ...

Storms are typical in the winter, including those associated with atmospheric rivers, or long and wide plumes of water vapor flowing from the tropics. But as Earth warms, climate scientists warn ...

a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. "The world has been reeling under climate change, so being as confident as possible of the role of carbon ...

The Tibetan Plateau also plays a substantial role in the global climate system by affecting atmospheric circulation and driving weather patterns, such as the Asian summer monsoon, around the planet.

the Hadley cells are of great interest to climate scientists. However, while there is plenty of global data about rainfall and temperature, measuring airflow throughout the atmosphere is next to ...

But the intensity of recent atmospheric rivers is almost certainly affected by human-caused climate change, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.