Climate change is making rainfall harder to predict, as shifting wind patterns challenge climate models and increase ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind ...

The mechanisms by which African topographic changes influence South Asian precipitation. view more . Credit: Mingyu Zeng. The ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

It makes sense that atmospheric rivers would flood West Coast headlines as well as its coastlines. Eighty percent of all West Coast flood damage is attributable to these immense highways of water ...

"Selected papers presented at the summer institute titled Physics of the upper atmosphere which was conducted by the Physics Department of the University of Texas at El Paso in cooperation with the ...