If this late-week atmospheric river pattern shifts south, Sacramento's rain totals will increase. The same rule applies to snow chances around Lake Tahoe. If the northward trend continues, many of ...

An atmospheric river is a long, narrow band of moisture that oftentimes comes ahead of a storm system. It's a big source of moisture for the Western U.S. and, specifically, the Sierra Nevada and ...

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into higher latitudes, often thousands of miles long. These thin ribbons of ...

Weather, climate and hydrometeorology forecasts require accurate surface–atmosphere coupled modeling. This requires the use ...

He is especially interested in processes that control the intensity of the hydrologic cycle and the subsequent impacts on precipitation and terrestrial moisture availability. Chris grew up outside of ...

An atmospheric river is essentially a narrow band of Pacific moisture, water vapor, that is funneled into a long narrow flow.

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

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