The family is well-known among California whale-watching enthusiasts, with a reputation for playfully interacting with boats.

A research team led by National Taiwan University used geochemical indicators from deep-sea sediments to reconstruct the ...

La Niñas, which begin as a cooling of water temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific, tend to feature enhanced upward motion in the air over the Atlantic. Here’s a look back at some of the ...

The largest ODZ on the planet is located in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, where it stretches from the Central American coastline westwards to the Central Pacific. Given the juxtaposition of this ...

An eastern Caribbean Sea tropical wave was moving westward, isolated showers. The northern portion of an eastern Pacific tropical wave extends northward to over the eastern Bay of Campeche.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) updated its forecast for the 2023 Atlantic tropical season on Aug. 10, predicting a 60% chance of 14 to 21 named storms with winds of 39 ...

Likewise to previous ENSO forecasts, the December update predicts a weak and short La Niña. Weak La Niñas tend to keep winter ...

Bjerknes recognized that the Southern Oscillation was the atmospheric counterpart of an oceanic oscillation between a warm (El Niño) and a cool (La Niña) state in the eastern tropical Pacific.

The discrepancies between proxies and models may stem from the fact that the models overestimate sea surface temperature changes in the eastern tropical Pacific. The proxy results also suggest ...