The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating ...

Air above the sea is heated, expands and begins to rise. The rising air is replaced by cooler air drawn off the land. This is called a land breeze. Convection currents enable hot air balloons to ...

The researchers examined both the Walker circulation—defined as the difference in sea level pressure between ... a direct measure of convection strength. The convective mass flux is expected ...

To better understand the mechanisms behind multiple-peak convection, this study utilized ... such as turbulence and land-sea-mountain-valley breezes driven by differential terrain heating.