ON May 18 a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society was held to discuss the problem of the changing pattern of lergescale flow in the atmosphere, usually known as the ‘geberak circulation'. In ...

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are a class of computer-driven models for weather forecasting, understanding climate and projecting climate change, where they are commonly called Global Climate ...

The region in which the equatorward moving surface flows converge and rise is known as the intertropical convergence zone, or ITCZ, a high-precipitation band of thunderstorms.Having lost most of its ...

Some of the climate system’s responses to global warming are rather surprising: Contrary to scientists’ expectations, the Pacific Walker circulation – a large-scale circulation in the tropical ...