The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...

Something has shifted in the way climate scientists talk about their own work. The language has become noticeably more cautious, the caveats more pointed. Researchers who once trusted decades-old ...

A newly formed El Niño could strengthen into a “super” event by winter, altering US heat, rain, hurricanes and even 2026 World Cup weather.

A developing El Niño is already altering Pacific winds and ocean heat, setting up possible shifts in U.S. weather and hurricane seasons in 2026.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and quantifying the complex airflow dynamics directly above the ocean surface in ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By tracking how temperature patterns shift over time, it can reveal fast-moving, ...

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, revealing two simultaneous wind–wave energy-transfer tricks—slow short waves steal ...

Scour marks left by icebergs that ran aground thousands of years ago record the winds blowing off the Laurentide Ice Sheet.

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used to illustrate this concept is a butterfly flapping its wings only to cause ...

For millions of people across India, the monsoon determines the availability of water for drinking, agriculture, energy ...