Conventional knowledge in California about whether significant rainfall is in store for any given year has largely been tied up in the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. But a new study ...
The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino ...
El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...
While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...
Atmospheric rivers are a plume of moisture that extend across the Pacific to near Hawaii. When they hit land they can cause ...
The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...