Atmospheric rivers get talked about a lot during winter in California -- and for good reason. The invisible rivers in the sky play a significant role in how much rain the state receives and can ...

It controls the strength of westerly winds between the “Azores high”’ and the “Icelandic low” that bring a succession of weather systems to Western Europe. New research has looked at the influence of ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of ...

Three people have died in the historic flooding that has pummeled California, trashing homes and communities across the state. The back-to-back 'Pineapple Express' storms, fueled by an atmospheric ...

The representation of groundwater dynamics in land surface models and their roles in global precipitation variations has received attention in recent years. Studies have revealed the overall higher ...

A Korean research team used radioactive material left in the polar regions from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the Pacific in the 1950s to identify the seasonal characteristics of global ...

Did you know that there are rivers in the sky? They are what's known in the weather world as "atmospheric rivers." And they can dump a vast quantity of water on a given area, leading to natural ...