Sentences with phrase «which atmospheric rivers»

«The Lagrangian coherent structures serve as a kind of temporary scaffolding around which an atmospheric river can grow and lengthen,» Perez - Munuzuri said.

Not exact matches

«Drought - busting rainfall this month, which also compromised the U.S.'s tallest dam, has been associated with these atmospheric rivers or what some call the Pineapple Express,» said J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of the atmospheric sciences program at UGA.

We had an example of this in the U.K. last Winter, 2015/2016, following the v. strong El Nino, and the atmospheric river effect which brought record rainfall and flooding to much of the British Isles.

These moisture plumes are sometimes called «atmospheric rivers,» which are responsible for some of the most damaging flooding events along the U.S. West Coast, particularly in California.

Higher rates of rain fall there, which is then channeled into valleys, agitates rivers that aren't ready for the gush of water, said Jeff Weber, an atmospheric scientist at the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo..

During the ice - free period in August and September 2007, the prevailing cyclonic atmospheric circulation deflected the freshwater plume of the River Lena to the east, which increased the salinity on the mid-shelf north of the Lena Delta.

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.

«All climate models show that as the climate warms, we should expect more frequent atmospheric river storms, which isn't good in California because it's almost like too much rain at one time,» she said.

«You have more evaporation, more energy, more heat and that's driving more moisture from the tropics which is where these atmospheric rivers originate,» Lynn Ingram, a professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, told IBT.

The storms are being driven by an «atmospheric river,» which, as NOAA explains, is a «relatively narrow» region in the atmosphere «responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics.»

The storms, many of which have contained a narrow channel so rich in atmospheric water vapor that meteorologists refer to them as atmospheric rivers, are showing no signs of stopping, either.

«The observed trends may be extrapolated to the coastal seas of the North American Atlantic Ocean and the North, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, which have received ever - increasing amounts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrate deposition and river - borne nitrate, comparable to those absorbed by coastal and marginal seas of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.»

The general cooling and atmospheric circulation changes result in weaker peak river flows and vegetation productivity, which may raise issues of water availability and crop production.

We found that Colorado River flows decline by about 4 percent per degree F increase, which is roughly the same amount as the increased atmospheric water vapor holding capacity discussed above.