Jet streams, otherwise known as Rossby waves were discovered to be meandering in nature by Carl Gustaf Rossby during the World War II. It so happened when he realised that his flight from USA to Japan(East to West) took him around 4 hours while he could fly back in just about 2 hours. read more
Climatologists say that changes in the jet streams are closely tied to global warming, especially the polar jet streams, because there is a great deal of evidence that the North and South poles are warming faster than the remainder of the planet. read more