How Atmospheric Rivers Form
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
A new study, published in the journal Chaos, suggests that unusually persistent spatial structures that self-assemble high in the atmosphere serve as "tracer patterns" around which atmospheric rivers grow. Based on simulations using real weather data in the Atlantic Ocean, the work was focused specifically on the transport of water from the Caribbean to the Iberian Peninsula, but it suggests a more general way to study the transport of tropical water vapor globally.