The Pacific Walker Circulation -- and related El Niño and La Niña patterns -- is changing because of human activity, volcanoes in the tropics Date: August 23, 2023 ...

The Walker circulation forms over the tropical Pacific, where the Western Pacific is typically warm with low sea level ...

Some of the climate system’s responses to global warming are rather surprising: Contrary to scientists’ expectations, the Pacific Walker circulation – a large-scale circulation in the tropical ...

A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the recent intensification of the equatorial Pacific wind system, known as Walker Circulation, is unrelated to ...

So what's behind this enormous shift? These atmospheric rivers are affected by something called the walker circulation, and this is an enormous conveyor belt of wind that spans the entire tropical ...

(The change was found to be the same for both El Niños and La Niñas.) The descending motion of the Walker Circulation led to ...

California just notched its driest January and February on record, sounding alarms about a third year of record drought. Across the Pacific Ocean, thousands are fleeing record flooding in Australia.

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 ...