Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

A study by NASA and university scientists is shedding new light on a mysterious, cyclical wave in Earth’s atmosphere that at times profoundly affects our planet’s weather and climate. Using satellite ...

The catastrophic eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in 2022 triggered a special atmospheric wave that has eluded detection for the past 85 years. Researchers from the University of ...

Australia has always had heat waves. But this week's heat wave in southeastern Australia is something else. Temperatures in some inland towns in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria were up ...

Australia has always had heatwaves. But this week’s heatwave in southeastern Australia is something else. Temperatures in some inland towns in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria were up to ...

Meteorological tsunamis, or meteotsunamis, are long ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band that are generated by traveling ...

The Hunga volcano ushered in 2022 with a bang, devastating the island nation of Tonga and sending aid agencies, and Earth scientists, into a flurry of activity. It had been nearly 140 years since an ...

A NASA researcher finds that the amount of sea ice that moves between Greenland and Spitsbergen, a group of islands north of Norway, is dependent upon a “wave” of atmospheric pressure at sea level. By ...

Roughly twenty miles above Earth's surface, in a largely invisible layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere, some of the most dramatic temperature changes on our planet unfold. Major sudden ...