New research from scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) years, such as ...

Adam Sherwinski teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about the different types of precipitation This video explains the different types of precipitation—such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, drizzle, ...

(KRON) — The first of two significant atmospheric river storms barreled into the Bay Area on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and causing trees to fall. Rain is expected to continue over the ...

SEATTLE — What's an atmospheric river? And how is it different from a bomb cyclone? And how is it related to a Pineapple Express? These questions are top of mind as an atmospheric river is impacting ...

New mapping of the giant planet’s upper atmosphere reveals likely reason why it’s so hot. The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants — Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — are hot, just like ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

I watched the tire slowly filling until it was round and solid feeling again. I was impressed once more with the fact that air — something we can’t see, feel or taste — actually has a measurable mass ...

Henry Sakamoto, a legend in Portland’s Japanese American community and the man responsible for bringing the beloved cherry trees to the city’s waterfront, died in late November, his family announced ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...