transporting enormous amounts of water. The most powerful atmospheric rivers can unleash torrential rains and cause widespread flooding, especially when they stall over vulnerable watersheds. But they’re also a vital feature of Earth’s hydrological cycle, often delivering needed ...
In between rainfalls, which occur mainly in the winter, much of California gets very little rain. While this cycle has been the norm, dry spells are getting longer and hotter. When the rains do come, they dump more water in fewer days than they used to. Research indicates that these ...
How climate change contributes to atmospheric rivers The California coast is currently getting pummeled with heavy rain from atmospheric rivers. February 5, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Beneficial rain for Saturday across dry Northeast, severe storms today for Central Plains ...
A., Gershunov, A., Guan, B., and Nardi, K. M.: ARTMIP-early start comparison of atmo- spheric river detection tools: how many atmospheric rivers hit northern California's Russian River watershed?, Clim. Dynam., 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4427-5, 2018....
This can occur in places with cold air, as cold air cannot hold much water vapor. On the other hand, moist air has high humidity levels, often found in warm, humid climates where the air can hold a large amount of water vapor. Cool air also generally holds less water vapor than warm...
Terrible weather events too often illustrate this grim adage, piling one sorrow upon another; storms can lead to floods, which can lead to disease and pestilence, and so on. After four years of drought, Iran must have been desperate for water in any form -- any, that is, but the ...
Past work on how floods cause turbidity currents has often focussed on a model in which the floodwater has enough sediment to become denser than seawater, so that the river-plume plunges to move directly along the seabed as a ‘hyperpycnal flow’27,28,51. This model can be ruled out for...
Here, the ice floats, forming ice shelves, often several hundred meters in thickness. The early explorers called these “barriers” because the 30-meter wall of ice above the water line was impossible to penetrate by ship. The enhanced flow in ice streams occurs because water is generated at...
Quantitative analysis often involves measuring emissions of specific pollutants, either total, per capita, or localized, under various social and economic conditions. Common methods used for this include the emission factor method, soil and water assessment tool, and direct measurement (Zaman and ...
Why does upwelling occur along most coastlines around the globe? Describe how estuarine waters are often stratified by salinity. How and why does the tidal range vary between a spring tide and a neap tide? How does light and inorganic nutrient supply control phytoplankton growth? How can heavy ...