This means that, once atmospheric rivers reach land, especially the coastal mountains in California, they move up in altitude from their starting point as they travel. As the water vapor that makes up ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

Researchers have discovered a major shift in atmospheric rivers, which is impacting weather patterns around the world.

CO2 plays an important role in climate because it is one of the atmospheric "greenhouse" gases (GHGs) which keep the Earth's surface about 33 degrees warmer than the -18C temperature it would be ...

increasing the atmospheric temperature, which reduces the relative humidity, inhibits cloud formation, and enhances evaporation of existing clouds. This is collectively termed the semi-direct ...

A bomb cyclone is pummeling the Pacific Northwest. The bomb cyclone in the Pacific Northwest is about to pull in a plume of moisture in the form of an atmospheric river. Atmospheric rivers are ...

Last winter, the eastern Pacific Ocean experienced a robust El Nino, which was marked by higher-than-usual sea surface ...