An atmospheric river is a plume of moisture that helps carry saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, delivering unrelenting rain or snow. While atmospheric rivers are an incredibly ...

Atmospheric rivers can be beneficial — but also ... A 1998 study by MIT found an atmospheric river can have the same moisture flux as the Amazon River — carrying about 176,000 tons of water ...

Flooded streets in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Sunday. Forecasters said the atmospheric river — a huge plume of moisture drawn from the Pacific Ocean — is expected to stall over the city of Los ...

A study published in Nature Communications reveals that rising levels of atmospheric moisture caused by climate change are expected to dramatically increase the frequency and intensity of ...

When this atmospheric stream, bloated with moisture as it is, meets the coastal mountains, it is forced up and over the higher terrain. This is called orographic lift.

Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over Africa, making it more difficult for the predecessors of many Atlantic hurricanes to form, according to a new study ...

During October, about 72 percent of the planet experienced above average amounts of atmospheric moisture — a trend toward more water vapor in the atmosphere that’s consistent with a warming world.