Rossby waves naturally occur in rotating fluids. Within the Earth's ocean and atmosphere, these planetary waves play a significant role in shaping weather. This animation from NASA's Goddard Space ...

Rossby waves are fundamental components of the midlatitude atmospheric circulation, arising from the conservation of vorticity on a rotating planet. They appear as large-scale undulations in the jet ...

The rains have returned with a vengeance little more than a week after the Bureau of Meteorology declared a flood-weary nation rid of a La Niña weather pattern. La Niña increased the chance of extreme ...

A new link between processes in the open ocean and coastal sea-level has been revealed in a Nature Communications paper, published today by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The ...

A doctoral student at the University of Cambridge has come up with a possible explanation for the westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field. In his paper published in Proceedings of the Royal ...

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 south ...

Weather conditions on Earth are influenced by a phenomenon known as Rossby waves. These planetary-scale fluctuations arise because the Coriolis force – due to the Earth’s rotation – varies with ...

Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet it made big waves twice. First, it disturbed the atmosphere in ...

Heatwave: the Ferguson fire burned in Yosemite, California in July and August 2018. That year was the worst ever for wildfires in the US state, something that may have been related to stalled Rossby ...