El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is known to trigger extreme weather events worldwide, from droughts and floods ...

An atmospheric river is a complex weather phenomenon ... way that allows a storm system to bring a more sustained and deep convection into California,” KRON4 meteorologist Kyla Grogan said.

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

The research also revealed that the occurrence of WWBs is closely tied to atmospheric deep convection, which is driven by underlying SSTAs in the western-central equatorial Pacific. Even small ...