The researchers assessed waves on the Colorado River in Texas, the Ocmulgee River in Georgia and the Yellowstone River in ...

This story appears in the spring 2025 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “Taking Flight.” ...

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying ...

Last week, an atmospheric river brought record-breaking rainfall across parts of the Midwest and U.S. South. At least 18 people have been killed, the Associated Press reported. More for You ...

Satellite images appear ... 20 billion tons of water in the atmosphere per day. Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, near the city of Belem, Para state ...

Here’s the satellite view of what’s called an atmospheric river. “While atmospheric rivers can vary greatly in size and ...

Here’s the satellite view of what’s called an atmospheric river. There is a low pressure system over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting the West Coast. GOES-W satellite shows the defined ...

Photos captured the impact of the atmospheric river that triggered mudslides and significant floods in Southern California this week. Evacuation warnings were issued for vulnerable locations ...

The midweek storm, fueled by a weather system known as an atmospheric ... known as the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Program, or AR Recon. The program skirts the satellite issue by collecting ...

As a test case, the team applied the method to Houston and generated satellite images depicting what certain ... a postdoc in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, who ...

In recent years, “atmospheric river” has become used much more frequently ... When plotted on a map or looked down upon from a satellite in space they looked just like rivers.

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...