Ocean-atmosphere coupling, the exchange in energy between the ocean and atmosphere, influences teleconnection patterns, the climate effects across vast geographical areas. However, its impact outside ...
This figure illustrates the emerging paradigm of multi-platform, stereoscopic cooperative observation for tropical cyclones. Traditional platforms, such as manned aircraft, and moored buoys, are ...
SAN DIEGO — Just steps from the waves at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SOARS, short for Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator, sits inside a decades-old redwood structure ...
A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...
The committee noted that ocean-atmosphere interactions play a crucial role in influencing extreme weather events.
The atmosphere and the earth’s ecosystems are parts of a coupled system. For a large variety of processes, forcing from one partner in the interaction elicits one or more responses from the other ...
Tropical upwelling zones are often overshadowed by their higher-latitude counterparts in ocean science, yet they play an outsized role in maintaining global marine productivity. These systems help ...
Fukuoka, Japan—The interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere plays a vital role in shaping the Earth’s climate. Changing sea surface temperatures can heat or cool the atmosphere, and changes ...