Between these two powerful drivers of circulation, Earth's atmosphere is constantly cycling and changing. Earth has five major wind zones, organized by latitude.

This weakens the wind circulation, as well as the transport of heat and moisture needed to fuel the storm. The result can tear a hurricane apart. El Niño’s and La Niña’s influence.

As the strength of Mr. Croll's conviction that he has completely demolished the “gravitation theory” of oceanic circulation by the “crucial test” to which he subjected it before the ...