While droughts are often blamed on low rainfall, scientists found that the atmosphere itself is pulling moisture from soil, ...

Scientists reveal how the atmosphere’s growing thirst for water is intensifying droughts worldwide, threatening crops and ...

Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it's not just changing rainfall patterns that are to ...

Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new ...

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 ...

Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns ... known as cyclogenesis, is a complex process where small-scale weather events and large-scale atmospherics happen simultaneously.

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of intense horizontal moisture transport in the ... According to Irina, "among the main processes described in this review study are dynamic ...

The poleward movement of atmospheric rivers can be explained as a chain of interconnected processes ... Without this moisture, these areas could face more water shortages, putting stress on ...

Warmer air can also hold more water vapor. The circulation of the atmosphere will pull streams of moisture away from the equator forming “atmospheric rivers.” These “rivers” of moisture ...

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.