Southern Oscillation’s global reach and complex ocean–atmosphere interactions across timescales, two simple, elegant equations capture its key dynamics and defining properties.

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

One metaphor used to illustrate this concept is a butterfly flapping its wings only to cause a hurricane across the ocean. While meteorologists’ current cause-and-effect understanding of weather ...

ENSO is a recurring climate pattern in the tropical Pacific driven by interactions between ocean temperatures and atmospheric winds, with two distinct phases, El Niño and La Niña. El Niño is generally ...

Atlantic hurricane season 2025 is almost here and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... continued ENSO-neutral conditions, warmer than average ocean temperatures, forecasts ...

With just days to go before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... temperatures and neural El Nino Southern Oscillation ...

The Caller-Times put together its yearly guide to everything you need to know on preparation, the forecast and things to know for the weeks to come. The National Ocean and Atmospheric ...

The dry spell is expected to end Monday after five more days of record-breaking heat, caused by a ridge of high-pressure that has dominated our weather ... strong El Niño, the ocean-warming ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to ‘hear’ the impacts ...

The associations are the Swiss army knife of oceanography, using buoys, submersible drones and radar installations to track water temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure, wave speeds ...