The Walker circulation, an atmospheric circulation pattern in the tropics, has accelerated in recent years, puzzling climate scientists who had anticipated the opposite. Researchers from the Max ...

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 ...

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.