Sentences with phrase «intense atmospheric river»

Climate models project that the intensity and duration of atmospheric rivers increase in the Golden State in a warming climate, with the most intense atmospheric river storms becoming more frequent.

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Mass has done work that suggests atmospheric rivers, at least along the West Coast, should become more intense in the future with warming, but that the effect today is still small.

The 2012 - 2013 water year was especially remarkable because it began rather early with a series of very intense and moist storms associated with «atmospheric rivers» in Northern California during November but then quickly tapered off, with only light and sporadic precipitation falling for the remainder of the typical «rainy» season from mid-December through May.

[26] Historically, the most intense storms and precipitation events in California have been tied to wintertime atmospheric rivers that fed on high levels of water vapor in the air.

On January 3 and 4, the first of two back - to - back atmospheric river storms (wide paths of moisture in the atmosphere composed of condensed water vapor), brought heavy rain and mountain snow to central California, ahead of an even more intense round of heavy precipitation brought by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river storm pulling warm and moist air to California from the subtropical and equatorial region southeast of Hawaii.

Climate Change Could Alter Them A recent study led by Christine Shields of the National Center for Atmospheric Research suggests that climate change could push atmospheric rivers in the Pacific toward the equator and bring more intense rains to southern California.