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

Since the late 1990s, summer surface melt in coastal West Antarctica has significantly increased due to intensified anticyclonic blocking and enhanced warm air advection, driven by Rossby wave ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that play a major role in holding back rapidly retreating glaciers.

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 ...

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 ...