Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose scientists in a new study. It suggests that human-made climate change repeatedly disturbs the patterns of atmospheric flow around the globe's Northern hemisphere through a subtle resonance mechanism.