Differences in background moisture transport explain how climate variability modes influence the frequency of landfalling atmospheric rivers and their corresponding precipitation.
Examining flood occurrences associated with mesoscale convective systems and their characteristics allows researchers to explore climate-flood linkages.
The most polluted U.S. communities from five years ago are still the most polluted today, 50 years after passage of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1970.
Principles derived from coastal wetlands to describe wetland channel cross-sections were applicable to the Columbia River estuary, but not the tidal river.
Researchers found that warmer local sea surfaces increase the winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but reduce snowpack in the Cascade range.
Researchers attained a new understanding of how and why the Great Plains low-level jet changes under global warming has implications for future weather in the Central U.S.