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We analyze the characteristics of atmospheric variations over tropical South America using the pattern recognition framework of weather typing or atmospheric circulation patterns (CPs). During ...

The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the ...

Scientists studying US climate models have identified an atmospheric circulation pattern that signals a higher risk of extreme heat spells. The pattern's occurrence indicates only that a US ...

Here, we investigate the role of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in driving summer atmospheric circulation changes. The summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO), the leading mode of ...

Brewer-Dobson circulation is like a pump to the stratosphere, moving ozone from the lower parts of the atmosphere, into the upper stratosphere over the tropics.

In the tropics, ocean warming patterns determine rainfall change by driving atmospheric circulation change. In regions of enhanced ocean warming, the atmosphere becomes unstable and conducive to ...

Volcanoes that blast gases high into the atmosphere not only change global temperatures but also influence flooding in ...

The team has found, for the first time, evidence of a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) -- an atmospheric circulation pattern that originates at the equator -- at McMurdo, Antarctica.

Summertime heat waves in the United States tend to be preceded two weeks before by a distinctive atmospheric circulation pattern, climate models suggest. The finding, detailed in this week's issue ...

Due to global warming, the North Atlantic Oscillation, an atmospheric circulation pattern that strongly influences European weather, is becoming more extreme in the summer, according to a study ...