Sentences with phrase «atmospheric rivers over»

Payne, A.E. and G. Magnusdottir, 2014: Dynamics of landfalling atmospheric rivers over the North Pacific in thirty years of MERRA reanalysis.

Payne, A. E., and G. Magnusdottir (2016), Persistent landfalling atmospheric rivers over the west coast of North America, J. Geophys.

Payne, A. E., and G. Magnusdottir (2015): An evaluation of atmospheric rivers over the North Pacific in CMIP5 and their response to warming under RCP 8.5, J. Geophys.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Using publically available data about wind speed and water vapor flux from real - world atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic, the scientists created a computer model consisting of thousands of moving virtual air particles and found a close match between the complex swirls — the Lagrangian coherent structures — made by the air particles and the patterns made by the real atmospheric rivers.

Not exact matches

A cloud over a mountain may look stationary, but it more closely resembles a standing wave in a river — an atmospheric river.

While atmospheric rivers vary in size and shape, those containing large amounts of water vapor, strong winds, and that stall over watersheds vulnerable to flooding, can create extreme rainfall and floods.

They compared two simulations, present and future, of atmospheric rivers determined from the vertically integrated water vapor flux to quantify the changes in atmospheric rivers that make landfall over western North America.

Meteorological scientists warn that the changes in heat composition and air pressure over the Tibetan Plateau may have implications beyond Asia's river basins, as shifting dynamics of the atmospheric circulatory system over the plateau could change wind and monsoon patterns across much of the world.

The atmospheric river of moisture streaming off of the record warm Pacific ocean is heavily aerosolized (as described above) which keeps much of the moisture from falling and broadcasts it out into massive regions of rainless (and toxic) cloud cover expanding out over the Western US.

A Wet Year Wont Beat California's Never - Ending Drought01.22.2017 — Storm after storm has pummeled California over the past few weeks as a series of so - called atmospheric rivers has come ashore... Read More.

That Great Flood of 1862 was actually a train of atmospheric river storms over about a month, leading to a 200 - year flood.

While the ever - important caveat is that it would only take a couple of strong, moist storms (namely, an atmospheric river or two) to bolster our reservoir levels to a level adequate to get us through next summer, there is likely to be rapidly heightening concern in the coming months over possible water shortages in the medium and long term if the «rainy season» doesn't actually become rainy in pretty short order.

Additionally, many atmospheric river storms move down the coast over time, so those that made landfall above California frequently moved down to the state as well.

Hagos, S. M., et al., 2016: A projection of changes in landfalling atmospheric river frequency and extreme precipitation over western North America from the Large Ensemble CESM simulations.

The second paper, by Hagos et al. (2016) examines changes to atmospheric river events over western North America, assuming a business - as - usual anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

The second paper, by Hagos et al. (2016) in Geophysical Research Letters uses output from a global climate model to examine changes to atmospheric river events over western North America, assuming large, business - as - usual anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

These warm ocean waters contributed to severe floods over the Ohio River Valley at that time by pumping record levels of atmospheric moisture into the storms running south.