The North Atlantic warming hole (NAWH), a region of reduced warming located in the North Atlantic Ocean, significantly affects the North Atlantic jet stream in climate simulations of the future. …read more Source:: Science
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Pulse of the polar vortex revealed: A key to mapping future storms
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•If you can predict the path of the jet stream, the upper atmosphere’s undulating river of wind, then you can predict weather — not just for a week or two, …read more Source:: Science
New theory finds ‘traffic jams’ in jet stream cause abnormal weather patterns
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•A study offers an explanation for a mysterious and sometimes deadly weather pattern in which the jet stream, the global air currents that circle the Earth, stalls out over a …read more Source:: Science
Jet stream changes since 1960s linked to more extreme weather
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•Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, wildfires and flooding. The …read more Source:: Science
Peculiarities of huge equatorial jet stream in Saturn’s atmosphere revealed
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•The atmosphere of the planet Saturn, a gas giant ten times bigger than the Earth consisting mostly of hydrogen, has a wider, more intense jet stream than all the planets …read more Source:: Science