CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Atmospheric measurements made at Earth’s geographic poles provide a convenient way of validating and calibrating global circulation models. Such measurements also might provide some ...

While there is substantial evidence for tropospheric jet shift and Hadley cell expansion in response to greenhouse gas increases, quantitative assessments of individual mechanisms and feedback for ...

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THIS may be described as a French Student's notebook of foreign memoirs upon the general circulation of the atmosphere. It contains papers upon the subject, partly translated in full, partly in ...

An international team of scientists found that volcanic eruptions can cause the Pacific Walker Circulation to temporarily weaken, inducing El Niño-like conditions. The results provide important ...

Scientists have struggled for the past few decades to understand why air temperatures around Antarctica over the past one million years were almost perfectly in synch with atmospheric CO2 ...

Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Internal Waves (JUNE 2012), pp. 20-29 (10 pages) ABSTRACT. Ocean tides, and the atmospherically forced oceanic general circulation and its associated ...

A new study looking at data from 24 years of NASA satellite surveys has found that the Earth is getting darker, and there are significant differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on a crucial mechanism of lowering atmospheric CO2 during Earth ...