This water year, which runs from the beginning of October of 2022 and runs through the end of September of 2023, California and other parts of the United States have seen lots of precipitation. The deluge in California this winter season is attributed to atmospheric rivers.
So far in this season, eleven atmospheric rivers have happened over northern America and the twelfth is forecast to be on the horizon.
Intuition suggests that atmospheric rivers may be due to orbital forcing of the earth and the moon. The frequency with which they have been happening this winter season in the northern hemisphere, more specifically over parts of the United States, suggests that climate change may be a significant factor.
It was in an effort to attribute climate change to natural variability and manmade elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that I uncovered the predictability of meteorological variability. A journal paper on this research effort was published back in 2013. It is titled: Validation of predicted meteorological drought in California using analogous orbital geometries.
The causes and frequencies of atmospheric rivers are one of the topics of interest in this emerging research frontier. It may be a worthwhile effort for interested researchers to look into them as part of this emerging research frontier.
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Messele Zewdie Ejeta
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