What drives atmospheric rivers? Da Yang explains how these “rivers in the sky” gain and lose momentum, and how researchers...
UC San Diego–led research shows that understanding where rain comes from could reshape drought planning and land management across the globe From the University of California San Diego: A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver...
New study illustrates how these events are raising health and environmental risks for southwestern North America Drying soils in northern...
A new study found compound drought-heatwave events are rippling farther and lasting through the night, raising risks for Southwestern North...
By Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring phenomenon defined by shifts in tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, ocean currents, and overlying atmospheric winds. It manifests in three distinct phases: neutral, La Niña,...
A better understanding of groundwater in the headwaters could improve streamflow predictions. By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk Every spring,...
By S. Mehmet Ozsoy, Concordia University and Erkan Yonder, Concordia University Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend...
Persistent spatial patterns of summer weather extremes in the northern hemisphere recorded in tree ring growth records provide a thousand-year history of jet stream ‘wave5’ dynamics. by Susan Trumbore The degree to which global warming will affect atmospheric dynamics and,...
by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and...
By Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin A new wave of...
Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers found. By Chad Small, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization...
Climate change is warming the North Pacific Ocean, leading weather patterns that drive drought in the U.S. Southwest to persist...
By NIDIS On the second morning of the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop, keynote speaker Syed Huq reminded the audience:...
Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to long-standing hydrologic models. By Mark DeGraff, EOS As winter gives way to spring, seasonal snowpack in the American West begins to...
