Climate change is making rainfall harder to predict, as shifting wind patterns challenge climate models and increase ...

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

The trade winds are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern ...

NOAA and Jennifer A. Francis, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, and Stephen J. Vavrus, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Geophysical Research ...