A group of researchers has been working to demonstrate that rainfall from India's summer monsoon can set off a powerful ...

Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of ...

Dynamical mechanisms for the summer Eurasian circulation trend pattern are investigated by analyzing reanalysis data and conducting numerical model simulations. The daily circulations that resemble ...

Being coastal, Mumbai usually benefits from sea-breezes which help flush out pollutants. However, recent observations point ...

Rainfall fluctuates more vigorously. Why? Scientists say it's because of us. Many people around the world have noticed that rainfall is becoming increasingly erratic. Intense downpours are occurring ...

In recent years, as extreme weather events have occurred with increasing frequency, scientists have been searching within the ...

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, ...

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 James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a remarkable feat in the field of exoplanet studies by creating the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere. This alien world, subjected to such ...