Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

Atmospheric rivers, also described as "rivers in the sky," cause more than 80 percent of all flooding damage across the West ...

They're with UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography ... Bodega Bay is to collect weather data on the impressive atmospheric river storm. Every three hours, they're blowing up these ...

Lisa Murkowski announced the Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act ... Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It will also enhance ...

Only if it falls as snow. A 2016 study by NASA, NOAA, UCLA, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that atmospheric river events are 2.5 times more likely to produce "rain over snow" events ...

Some points on the coast of Northern California have reached an AR 4 level on the Scripps Insitute atmospheric river scale, which classifies atmospheric rivers by their severity from 1 to 5.

This kind of atmospheric river is often referred to as a pineapple ... deputy director at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University ...