Atmospheric Rivers handout

Related Resources

Handouts & Posters

• Atmospheric Rivers One-Pager (Handout)
• Water Vapor Flux Tool (Handout)

NOAA Feature Stories and Press Releases

• NASA Global Hawk Completes Atmospheric Rivers Study  (NASA Press Release, 03/10/11)
• What Are 'Atmospheric Rivers'?  (NOAA News Feature, 02/09/11)
• NOAA Studies Atmospheric 'Rivers' Using Unmanned Aircraft  (NOAA Press Release, 02/10/11)
• Series of Atmospheric Rivers Strike West Coast: Forecasters and Researchers Focus on Flood-Producing Storms  (HMT News, 01/07/11)
• CalWater, EFREP, and HMT-West  (ESRL Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2009)

External News Stories

• Atmospheric River Research Gathers Steam  (Scripps Research Highlight, 09/14/11)
• Rivers in the sky  (Science News, 02/26/11)
• Will the Earth's Wandering Magnetic Poles Cause Deadly Superstorms?  (Fox News, 02/12/11)
• Scientists warn California could be struck by winter 'superstorm'  (Yahoo News, 01/17/11)
• If Quakes Weren't Enough, Enter the 'Superstorm'  (New York Times, 01/15/11)
• Scientists Cite "Atmospheric River" for Near Continuous Rain  (NBC Los Angeles, 12/22/10)
• The Other Big One  (High Country News, 02/16/10)

Multimedia

Blogs

• Is Better Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers a Key to Predicting Major Floods in the Southwest? (10/07/11)
• Watts Up With That? Atmospheric Rivers: key to extratropical water vapor transport  (02/12/11)
• The Weather Channel's Dr. Greg Forbes explains atmospheric rivers and the ARkStorm  (12/17/10)

Video

• Rivers in the Atmosphere
  An animation about atmospheric rivers using a variety of satellite data (by NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory)


• NCAR Advanced Study Program Seminar (20 May 2009)
  Marty Ralph on "The role of atmospheric rivers in extreme precipitation on the U.S. West Coast: recent developments on monitoring and short-term prediction" (streaming video courtesy NCAR/ASP)

ARkStorm

• California Nevada Applications Program / California Climate Change Center ARkStorm Page
• Background on the USGS Multi-Hazard West Coast Winter Storm Project (aka, ARkStorm)
• USGS: Beware the ARkStorm  (Scripps 'Explorations Magazine', Mar/Apr 2011)
• ARkStorm Summit Uses HMT Findings to Define A Major Emergency Preparedness Scenario  (HMT News, 02/04/11)
• ARkStorm: California's other "Big One"  (USGS Press Release, 01/14/11)
• Podcast: Winter Storms in California that Could Cause $300 Billion in Damage
• Video: This is ARkStorm, video on Vimeo (by USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project)