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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA ...

Morocco’s climate is shifting toward hotter and drier conditions, with more frequent heatwaves and declining rainfall ...

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 ...

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Walker circulation, an atmospheric circulation pattern in the tropics, has accelerated in recent years, puzzling climate scientists who had anticipated the opposite. Researchers from the Max ...