Atmospheric Rivers (image)

Naval Research Laboratory

Caption

Screen capture of the world's atmospheric rivers, which account for most of the horizontal moisture transport outside of the tropics. NRL meteorologists plan to participate in a cooperative study in 2020 in the Eastern Pacific to improve their ability to forecast the rivers.

Credit

Image courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies/University of Wisconsin, Madison

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