In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

A new study suggests that global wind speeds have increased substantially since 2010 after decades of decline. Scientists say they believe that changes in the patterns of ocean and atmospheric ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

The authors used a global climate model to simulate how ... Instead, an arching pattern of regional winds, and their effects on ocean temperatures up to six months in advance, could explain ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world’s largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also ... in the Southern Ocean and global climate patterns over the past 1.5 million ...