The name El Niño (referring to the Christ child) was originally given by Peruvian fishermen to a warm current that appeared every year around Christmas. What we now call El Niño seemed to them ...
In this little-seen world, swirling super-highway currents move warm water thousands of miles north and south from the tropics to cooler latitudes, while cold water pumps from the poles to warmer ...
The speed and extent of current global warming exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000 years, researchers say. They show that famous historic events like the "Little Ice Age" don't compare ...
Energy is moved from areas of surplus to those of deficit, with warm currents transporting warm water pole-wards and cold currents taking colder water to lower latitudes. Water is transferred ...
Energy is moved by ocean currents from areas of strong heating to cooler areas: warm currents transport warmer water from lower latitudes (nearer the equator) to higher latitudes (nearer the poles ...
On a long-term scale, the number of overall cold events is declining. The likelihood of extremely cold days has decreased due to human-caused global warming, a 2016 paper published in The National ...
that matters because this current connects the Greenland Sea and the AMOC, and is carrying water from an area that has been warming rapidly. The second branch, however, seems to come from ...