The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) do not appear to exist, according to a team of meteorologists who believe this has implications for both the validity of previous studies attributing past trends to these hypothetical natural phenomena and for the prospects of decade-scale climate predictability. Using observational data and climate ...
El Niños have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to worsen storms, drought, and coral bleaching in El Niño years. A new study has found compelling evidence in the Pacific Ocean that the stronger El Niños are part of a climate pattern that is new and strange. It is the first known ...
Typhoon Hagibis wreaked destruction all over Japan and has been classified as one of the strongest storms to hit the region in decades. More than 80 people are believed to be dead, with several missing. Some regions have been flooded, with homes completely destroyed. Just before the typhoon hit Japan, skies in the region turned ...
People in Europe are currently suffering through one of the worst heatwaves in the region’s history. The rising temperatures have caused several deaths and forced people to stay indoors. The heatwave “Heatwaves occur across northern Europe when high atmospheric pressure draws up hot air from northern Africa, Portugal, and Spain, raising temperatures and increasing humidity. ...
Simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions probably is not going to be sufficient for the planet to escape catastrophic damage from climate change, scientists say. Additional actions will be required, and one option is solar geoengineering, which could lower temperatures by methods such as reflecting sunlight away from the Earth through the deployment of aerosols in ...
A lot of decisions go into creating a new building, whether it’s being used for commercial or residential purposes — location, construction materials, local infrastructure, and design aesthetics, to name a few. One thing that influences every aspect of construction is the weather. How do weather systems affect the types of buildings we create? Types ...
In the western Utah desert, the Telescope Array sprawls across an area the size of New York City, waiting for cosmic rays. The facility detects the high-energy particles that collide with Earth’s atmosphere constantly; the cosmic rays trigger the 500-plus sensors once every few minutes. While pouring over data in 2013, Telescope Array physicists discovered ...
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