Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over Africa, making it more difficult for the predecessors of many Atlantic hurricanes to form, according to a new study. Increased ...

The low-latitude highlands region of southwestern China experienced two major climate events in recent years: a severe drought in 2009–2010 and an extreme heat wave in 2019. Though both sprang from ...

While the Upper Ohio Valley is no stranger to heavy rainfall and flooding, the conditions that have been in place over the past couple of days have supercharged the atmosphere to produce some ...

Just as rivers flow across the land, sustaining communities, livelihoods and biodiversity, ‘invisible rivers’ flow above us, carrying more water vapour than all the rivers on Earth combined. These ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

Atmospheric water vapour is a key variable in Earth’s climate system, governing energy exchanges, precipitation processes and regional weather phenomena. Its spatial and temporal variability ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Qian Cao, University of California, San Diego (THE CONVERSATION) Along the U.S. West ...