atmospheric

Yet another atmospheric river to strike US West Coast today

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This animation from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory shows an atmospheric river event in 2017. Atmospheric rivers are relatively narrow regions in the atmosphere that are responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics. Image via NOAA. Atmospheric river to continue to pound U.S. West An atmospheric river has … Read more

Seismometers track atmospheric shock waves from incoming space debris

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This article is republished from Eos.org under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On April 2, 2024, a shower of fireballs lit up the night sky over Los Angeles and much of central and Southern California. Onlookers wondered whether they were witnessing a meteor, a failed rocket launch, or even a UFO. … Read more