Given that the weather phenomenon can override others such as El Niño and La Niña, researchers at the Scripps Institution of ...

The California Department of Water Resources says that this approach, known as the Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations, or ...

A storm system, fueled by unseasonably warm air, could unleash significant tornado activity along the Middle and Lower ...

But similar Scripps projects in other parts of the state have aided other reservoirs essential to water supply management. Part of the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program, another of Scripps ...

Led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR Recon) program sends these WC-130 Super Hercules ...

at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for answers on the weather phenomena that wreak havoc across California, dropping large amounts of rain in a short period of time. An atmospheric river ...

a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps and lead author of the study. “One or two atmospheric rivers can turn it into a wet year, but a weak atmospheric river season can turn it into a dry year. This means ...

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

The landfall of a brewing atmospheric river can be predicted up to three weeks in advance (Scripps scientists at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, or CW3E, are working to improve ...

Scripps scientists at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes are working to improve atmospheric river forecasts because the seasonal frequency is almost impossible to predict.