A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the same time, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...
What follows in the wake of tropical cyclones—strong, rotating storms that start above tropical oceans? Many people likely imagine destruction, if not even death. Hurricane Katrina, for example, was a ...
The Hadley Circulation (HC) plays a crucial role in distributing heat and moisture around the planet. Over recent decades, surface warming has caused the HC to expand poleward, expanding subtropical ...