A study co-led by Irina Gorodetskaya, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research ...

These long, narrow bands of moisture in the atmosphere transport warm air and water vapor from the tropics. They can extend for thousands of miles and dump rain and snow when they make landfall.

A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the ...

the atmospheric river is expected to "gradually settle southward through the middle of the week as multiple waves of low pressure traverse the front and bring strong Pacific moisture transport ...

Atmospheric rivers are long regions in the atmosphere that transport water ... by MIT found an atmospheric river can have the same moisture flux as the Amazon River — carrying about 176,000 ...

narrow river of water vapor in the lower atmosphere. These rivers in the sky transport moisture from the subtropics to the mid-latitudes. When an atmospheric river runs up against North America ...

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow, transient corridors of intense water vapor transport, responsible for about 90% of poleward moisture movement despite only making up about 10% of atmospheric ...