When powerful storms like Typhoon Kalmaegi and Typhoon Fong-Wong barrel through Asia, one question often resurfaces — what’s the difference between a hurricane, a cyclone, and a typhoon? The short ...

Americans refer to the sport with the white and black ball as “soccer,” yet if you ask someone in the U.K., it’s “football.” The same kind of name swap happens in weather. What we call a hurricane in ...

From stirring milk in your coffee to fearsome typhoon gales, rotating turbulent flows are everywhere. Yet, these spinning currents are as scientifically complex as they are banal. Describing, modeling ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi has ...

Accurate characterization of typhoon wind profiles throughout the lower troposphere remains challenging, as current understanding depends heavily on fragmented observations from shallow layers (<500 m ...

Oceanic mesoscale eddies represent the most energetic component of the ocean circulation; however, their decay routes remain elusive, leaving a key gap in our understanding of the oceanic energy ...