The relative roles of meridional temperature gradients and static stability with regard to the extratropical response to thermal perturbations are explored in a dry primitive equation (PE) GCM. A ...

As winter draws to an end, the waters of the Chesapeake begin to warm and the jet stream starts to move north of the mid-Atlantic region, taking much of the synoptic variability with it. However, ...

Canada’s vast landscape and dynamic weather patterns make these extreme temperature gradients possible. The driving forces ...

Do you know what causes wind? Well, broadly speaking it’s the sun... but more specifically, how the sun unevenly heats the Earth’s surface. That leads to areas of high and low pressure forming, and in ...