Their work, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that on the small scale, atmospheric flows exhibit wave motion rather than vortical motion, as was ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society on February 16, the subject for discussion was large-scale vertical atmospheric motion. In opening, Mr. J.K. Bannon stressed the importance of the ...

For example, roughly, 80 percent of levee breaches in California’s Central Valley are associated with landfalling atmospheric rivers. The scale, described today in the February 2019 Bulletin of the ...

While the atmospheric motion in the painting cannot be measured ... turbulence in the painter's depiction of the sky. "The scale of the paint strokes played a crucial role," author Yongxiang ...

The atmospheric river that led to the heaviest rain qualified as a Category 4 event in some areas based on a newly developed scale. Image credit: Nick Otto for the Washington Post. In an article ...

On Tuesday, researchers announced a new scale to describe the strength of atmospheric river storms, weather events that cause many of the West Coast’s heaviest rains. Unlike other scales that ...

Donate now. Another atmospheric river is now drenching Southern California. This particular river in the sky is ranked 2 to 3 on as scale that goes up to 5 ... but what does that ranking mean and ...

Meteorologists just announced the creation of a scale that will rank intensity of atmospheric rivers from Categories 1 through 5, similar to the existing scale used for hurricanes. The American ...