A new analysis of historical jet stream behavior reveals that increases in jet stream waviness accounted for 55-71% of winter ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...