Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

This Review summarizes Antarctic atmospheric river dynamics and climatology and discusses their impacts on the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. The Åsgardfonna ice cap in Svalbard did not ...

Julianne Fernandez parlayed her experience as a University of Cincinnati geosciences student into a career that has taken her ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A series of "atmospheric river" storms aimed at Northern California have already caused flooding, downed trees, landslides and at least one house on a scenic river to slide into ...

The second atmospheric river in a pair of storms will bring more rain and cooler temperatures to the Los Angeles area. The National Weather Service said the region will continue to have drizzle or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Thursday brings another round of rain as the next atmospheric river system arrives in the Bay Area. Low pressure and associated fronts will move over the region ...

After months of extremely dry conditions in Southern California, an atmospheric river storm delivered much-needed rain to a region plagued by wildfires in January. Scattered showers fell across ...

On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago, Antarctica set its all-time record ... Its extreme cold is due to its location at the base of a river valley in northeast Siberia ringed by mountains.

where their mission included the installation of two advanced weather and seismic monitoring stations to collect vital data on atmospheric and seismic activities in Antarctica. These stations are ...