An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, the world's weather systems are thrown into chaos when an important Atlantic Ocean current abruptly shuts down. Tornadoes rip through Los Angeles, sea levels rise ...

Salt water in the oceans is not the same everywhere; There are water layers that have different salinities and temperatures. The phenomenon of thermohaline circulation – which results from the ...

Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. Researchers compiled proxy data, ...

To a large extent, Earth’s climate is controlled by spatial variations in the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the global ocean. These temperatures vary between low to high latitudes, and within ...

The EU-funded MERIDIONAL project has released 13 scientific papers on wind energy—out of 22 since the project's launch. The occasion for this flurry of publications was the international TORQUE 2024 ...

When winds in the upper atmosphere, say above five thousand feet, are parallel to or nearly parallel to lines of latitude (meaning winds blowing from west to east in the Earth’s mid latitudes), the ...

We are one day away from the start of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season, and an El Niño is developing, which generally ...