Summers are getting hotter and drier in the Eurasian landmass due to an atmospheric circulation pattern further aggravated by ...

A team of scientists has found that drastic temperature changes across the planet are becoming more frequent, more intense ...

However, there are several other tropical waves that can influence weather patterns near northern Australia, and one of these is called an equatorial Rossby wave. Equatorial Rossby waves travel ...

Bt Gwynne Dyer – It used to blast straight east all the way around the planet, but even then it occasionally developed long S-shaped kinks called Rossby waves: Big loops extending far north and ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) have found different climatic drivers behind back-to-back extreme heat events experienced by South Asian countries including India, ...

These events happen when large-scale atmospheric waves, called Rossby waves, get pushed into the stratosphere from below, triggering sudden spikes in temperature. Like ocean waves, Rossby waves ...

"Our analysis shows that the March heatwave was primarily linked to a sudden increase in the amplitude of short-lived atmospheric Rossby waves, which are large-scale meanders in high-altitude winds ...