Reading time: 3minutes A study published last week in Science presents a mechanism to explain the unexpected and unprecedented disruption of the atmospheric winds in February 2016.
Reading time: 3minutes Researchers at UH Mānoa’s International Pacific Research Center find that projected climate change will enhance El Niño-related sea level extremes.
Reading time: 3minutes Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought.
Reading time: 2minutes The passageway that links the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean is acting differently because of climate change, and now its new behavior could, in turn, affect climate in both ocean basins in new ways.
Reading time: 2minutes A Nature article points to an unstable Antarctic ice sheet that can abruptly reorganize Southern Hemisphere climate and cause rapid global sea level rise.