But the atmospheric river will be limited to the West Coast, as much of Arizona will experience above-normal temperatures and ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms from 122 U.S. West Coast watersheds that occurred between 1980 and 2023. The goal of the study was to ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...

Historic Atmospheric River Events Atmospheric rivers have shaped the West Coast’s history in unforgettable ways. In January 1862, a series of atmospheric rivers turned California’s Central ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with Taylor Jenkins Reid about the lives of the first women astronauts as imagined in her new novel, "Atmosphere." ...

The 1.2-billion-euro Solar Orbiter mission, with NASA participation, should finally help us understand the origin of the Sun’s solar winds as well as our understanding of the Sun’s poles. And ...