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Global warming is changing the high-altitude autumn winds over southeast Australia, which means less rain and trouble for air travel.
Sting jets are poorly understood, but could have a big influence on Britain’s future winter storms.
The key ingredients for a storm to undergo bombogenesis are an unstable atmosphere, temperature differences and high-speed winds in the upper atmosphere.
Forecasters described it as a ‘historical weather day.’ An atmospheric scientist who was at the heart of the storms explains what happened.
The Rev. Sereno Edwards Bishop mobilized ship captains to track the extraordinary sunsets appearing around the world after Krakatau erupted in 1883.
When planes fly from east to west, they are flying against a river of air called a jet stream. These air currents can make your flight longer or shorter, depending on which way you are going.
Ice Age glaciers can help us track the jet stream 12,000 ago, and by comparing its path today we can see how it’s moving northwards, changing weather patterns and indicating climate change.
Sudden warming more than 10 km above the north pole can mean sudden freezing down here.
Since 1979, the average number of snow days has fallen by about five per decade.
Last week, much of the Midwest and eastern US experienced hazy skies and red sunsets. The cause was smoke transported from the Western US by the jet stream and spread as far as Boston and even Europe.
The jet stream is being distorted on both sides by fast-warming tropical and Arctic air. Should the tropics win out, weather patterns could change profoundly.
A climate scientist goes to work – at 8,500 metres.
Jupiter’s bands are one of its most striking features – and can be seen from Earth – but they only go so deep within the giant planet. Now scientists think they know why.
And how long before such extreme heatwaves become the ‘new norm’ across the region?
A climate scientist explains what is going on with this heatwave.
No matter how cold it is, you’re lucky you don’t live on Venus.
An atmospheric scientist who studies the Arctic explains why – because of global warming – the U.S. may be in for longer cold spells in the winter.
Very few Atlantic hurricanes travel northwards like this.
Will 2017 be a ‘bbq summer’? It depends on changes in the jet stream.
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Visiting Professor, Rutgers University
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Researcher, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds
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Research Associate, Climate Dynamics Group, University of Bristol
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds
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Professor of Climate Change Impacts, Newcastle University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Climate Science, Loughborough University
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Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Climate Science, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading
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Professor of Climatology, Durham University
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
