An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

In 2024, much of the world focused on rising air temperatures, but something similar was boiling beneath the waves.

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

As the Bay Area prepares for another round of storms, a new Stanford study explains just how much damage atmospheric rivers ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year thanks to the natural "La Niña" phenomena, the ...

La Niña has made a long-awaited return, cooling the Pacific and stirring up global weather patterns. This natural climate ...

Earth system models are essential tools for studying complex planetary processes, including interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere.