Atmospheric rivers could become stronger and have more impacts along the West Coast due to climate change. A new study shows ...

An atmospheric river is a long plume of moisture that is transported by tropical winds, often thousands of miles long. They are responsible for roughly half of the yearly rainfall in the West and ...

A new study shows that a changing climate may worsen the impacts of atmospheric rivers along the west coast, but not all in ...

Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life and enormous property damage. This ...

Now, it seems like there's a new climate disaster or record broken every season. Most recently, it was a bomb cyclone that turned into an atmospheric river in the Pacific Northwest. On Nov. 19, a bomb ...

Atmospheric dynamics encompasses all physical processes within atmospheres, including global and regional-scale circulation, convection, tropical and extratropical cyclones, and interannual ...

Atmospheric optics is a branch of optics and photonics that studies how light behaves in the Earth’s atmosphere. This can include both understanding naturally occurring effects involving ...

More rain is on the way for the weekend, but after that rain should fizzle out.