A polar vortex is a large area of low-pressure and cold air that circulates around the Earth’s poles, typically confined to the Arctic or Antarctic regions. This swirling mass of frigid air is held in ...

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...

New study finds that ammonia aerosols from penguin guano likely play an important part in the formation of heat-shielding ...

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The Omega Block occurs when the North Atlantic jet stream weakens, which happens when a weather phenomenon called the Stratospheric Polar Vortex breaks down early after a cold winter. It usually ...

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College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), ...

On the global scale, changes in density of the ocean waters drives the transport of warm water poleward on the surface, to be replaced by cold water from deeper levels from the polar regions ...