Rapid warming of the Atlantic is source of recent Pacific climate trends
UH Mānoa researchers discover that recent rapid Atlantic Ocean warming has affected climate in the Pacific.
New understanding of ocean passageway could aid climate change forecasts
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.
Antarctic ice-sheet less stable than previously assumed
A Nature article points to an unstable Antarctic ice sheet that can abruptly reorganize Southern Hemisphere climate and cause rapid global sea level rise.
Castaway fisherman’s drift matches currents and winds
UH Mānoa’s International Pacific Research Center model consistent with Jose Salvador Alvarenga’s 13-month voyage from Mexico.
Paths of possible debris from super typhoon Haiyan
Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner from the International Pacific Research Center predict possible debris paths from super typhoon Haiyan.
Scientists find that El Niño is becoming more active
New study by UH Mānoa scientists finds El Niño phenomenon unusually high during 20th century.
Greenhouse gases and aerosols have similar effects on rainfall
New research by UH Mānoa’s International Pacific Research Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that greenhouse gases and aerosols have similar effects on rainfall over the ocean.
Climate scientists solving the mysteries of hiatus in global warming
Climate scientists from UH Mānoa and Scripps Institute of Oceanography attribute consistent global mean temperatures to a cooling in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
El Niño unusually active in the late 20th century
International Pacific Research Center researchers Jinbao Li and Shang-Ping Xie compiled 2,222 tree-ring chronologies of the past seven centuries.
Climate researchers discover new rhythm for El Niño
UH Mānoa’s Malte Stuecker, Fei-Fei Jin and Axel Timmermann discover the reason behind El Niño’s weather patterns.
