The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land — Luna Leopold
What is an #AtmosphericRiver? — Scripps Oceanography
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky. When an atmospheric river makes landfall, it often releases this water vapor as rain or snow. Atmospheric rivers are responsible for up to half of California’s annual precipitation, and can cause flood damages averaging $1.1 billion annually throughout the West. Learn more about how atmospheric rivers form, and a scale to categorize their intensity and impacts, in this animation. 0:19 How do atmospheric rivers form? 0:45 What is the atmospheric river scale? 1:05 Why do we research atmospheric rivers? Get atmospheric river forecasts from the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E): https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/ Subscribe to Scripps Oceanography: http://bit.ly/2PVlvmp Subscribe to Scripps’ explorations now newsletter: http://bit.ly/2ZAGhLx Check out Scripps Oceanography: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ Scripps Oceanography on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scrippsocean Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scripps_Ocean Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scripps_ocean
