April 24 (UPI) --The end of the last ice age was precipitated by a shift in the circulation of the North Pacific Ocean some 15,000 years ago. According to new research by scientists at the University ...

New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better global climate models An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation ...

Figure 1: Pacific Ocean circulation and boundary currents. Here we review the current state of understanding of the structure and variability of the Pacific WBCs, their climatic impacts, and how they ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...

The term El Niño first appeared in the English language at the end of the nineteenth century—and not so much because of the fishermen’s melancholia, but as a name for the change in the current in the ...

The effects of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) on the Pacific Ocean circulation are investigated using a fully coupled climate model. Sensitivity experiments are designed to demonstrate that the presence of ...

The catastrophic release of fresh water from a vast south American lake at the end of the last Ice Age was significant enough to change circulation in the Pacific Ocean according to new research. The ...

ABSTRACT Five independent multicentury reconstructions of the July Canadian Drought Code and one reconstruction of the mean July–August temperature were developed using a network of 120 ...