NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of the Pacific Ocean had ...
The pattern had been predicted to form for several months, and weak La Niña conditions were finally officially met this week.
A warmer ocean means increased evaporation, which in turn results in heavier rains in some areas and droughts in others. It ...
La Niña occurs when water temperatures around the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean come in around 0.5°C colder than normal for several consecutive months.
denser water running along the ocean floor. Scientists say they can link this behaviour to changing wind patterns. These have been blowing more strongly over the Southern Ocean in recent decades ...
Patterns in the ocean swell could hint at distant land. Sit in any university-level fluid mechanics course, and you’ll learn about vortex streets, and how an obstruction in flowing water creates ...
The nearest ocean to the UK is the Atlantic Ocean ... it’s always moving in patterns called currents. So the water that swirls around this rock pool has travelled thousands of miles across ...
El Niño and La Niña are patterns of warmer- and cooler-than-seasonal water temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean around the equator. These anomalies have a major influence on weather ...