A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

Back in 1824, a French physicist named Joseph Fourier made a breakthrough that would fundamentally change our understanding ...

As climate change leads to more frequent and intense extreme precipitation events, accurately predicting rainfall during the ...

A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the ...

The climate system is powered by radiation from the sun, of which approximately 49% is absorbed by the Earth's surface, and 20% is absorbed by the atmosphere (Kiehl & Trenberth 1997). This energy ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

Earth system models (ESMs) integrate the interactions of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions.

Studies fundamental physical processes that govern terrestrial climate change, with emphasis on observations and particular attention to the Earth’s polar regions. Investigating everything from ocean ...

A weak La Nina event has arrived in the Pacific, bringing colder waters and potentially cooler weather. Despite being delayed ...

Scientists, assisted with millions in government funding, are about to embark on a mission to set up an “early warning system” for two so-called climate change ‘tipping points’: critical thresholds ...

Achieving many of the new Sustainable Development Goals depends upon the ability to provide a climate-smart food system. A new World Bank report advocates implementing agriculture practices that ...

The ideal applicant will have a computational background in Earth System or Ecological Modelling, Climate Science, or Physics, or a strong track record of having applied methods from these areas.