Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans ...

One of NOAA’s primary ocean-atmosphere models is now projecting that the Niño-3.4 index, the benchmark gauge of El Niño ...

A vast ocean current encircling Antarctica—more powerful than all the world’s rivers combined—played a surprisingly complex role in shaping Earth’s climate.

Scientists have found a rare warming pattern in the Pacific Ocean that could make the next El Niño much stronger.

Throughout the workshop, participants discussed the purpose of model parameterizations as well as the methods and means of developing and testing them. These discussions broached subjects such as ...

Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring to learn that not all climatic changes are solely due to human activities. There are still natural rhythms ...

A new study by the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna has challenged many of the existing ...

Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the infamous climate cycle returns again, developing and intensifying in the Pacific Ocean near ...