Even though you can't see them, atmospheric rivers are a very important phenomenon.
Atmospheric rivers might be one of the most important natural phenomena you've never heard of. However, they do appear in the news from time to time. , and in mid-November, a storm caused devastating flooding in Washington. are long, relatively narrow, column-like regions of the atmosphere that move most of the water vapor outside of the tropics. In a manner of speaking, you can consider them to be like rivers in the sky.
The so-called"Pineapple Express" is one well-known example of an atmospheric river. It is a strong atmospheric river that can bring moisture from the tropics near Hawaii to the U.S. West Coast.In short, yes and no, but the vast majority of atmospheric rivers are completely benign. In fact, most of them are weak systems that often bring rain or snow, which is important to the water supply of many regions of the world.
NASA Earth Observatory Image tracking the development of an atmospheric river over the Pacific Ocean between the 14th and 17th of October 2017. Source:F. Martin Ralph, the director of CW3E, worked with Jonathan Rutz from the National Weather Service and other experts to devise the scale. The scale takes into account both how much water vapor is moved and how long an event lasts.
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